On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the independence of Bangladesh, a drama about the genocide of 1971 'Peer Ali's Broken Face' was staged in Birmingham, UK.
The play, directed by Shahman Maishan of Bangladesh, was staged on December 21 at the Midlands Arts Center in Birmingham. Tareq Chowdhury has acted solo in it.
It is co-produced by Sandhani Arts and Bangla Connection with the Shakespeare Institute of Birmingham University. Shahman Maishan said audiences from different countries, including people from the Bangladeshi community in the UK, came to see the play.
Through this drama, they get to know the genocide that took place during the liberation war of Bangladesh.
Michael Dobson, director of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham, came to see the play. He called the play "Peer Ali's Broken Face" a "global language of human loss and loss".
The story of the play shows that in 1971, Pierre Ali's father Haider Ali, a rural poet, was killed by the invading forces. According to the diary of an English foster mother, about 40 years later, Pierre Ali appeared at a slaughterhouse in Bangladesh, hoping to touch his father's memorial plaque. But Pierre Ali does not find his father's memorabilia.
He met Namita Rani, a woman oppressed in 1971. Peer Ali learns from Namita Rani that her mother Kulsum BBO was raped by Pakistani forces and committed suicide by jumping into a river one day after giving birth to a baby girl.
Director Shahman Maishan said that one actor has acted in the whole play. And digital images have been used to create the atmosphere of the war. Filmmaker Maqbool Chowdhury was in charge of sound and digital projection of the play.
Shahman Maishan, an assistant professor in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Dhaka University, is currently pursuing a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. ‘Peer Ali’s Broken Face’ was created as part of his research.
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