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| ACHIEVEMENTS, HONORS AND RECOGNITION IN THEATRE
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In Delhi our group has placed its name first to experiment with solo reading theatre Katha Koumodi and produced four plays namely Chandrabidhouto, Aaba Othobaa Ekti Nidoya Sankater Galpo, Sankat & Thikana in different venues. |
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For the first time Amateur Group like ours experimented on minimalism and performed plays namely Chandrabidhouto, Sitar Nirbashan, Hanyaman, Canvasse Kankaboti and Shahjahan (Black and White) in a Studio at Shilpi Bhawan, C. R. Park for two months every Sunday under the banner of Sunday Theatre. For the first time a Bengali Theatre Group has produced its Multi-lingual drama by all its young artists, and staged the play Return of Godot, which created a sensation among the audience and media as well. |
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In the year 2000 the group bagged nine best awards out of eleven in the One Act Drama Competition organized by New Delhi Kalibari for the play Arokto Shomoy. Smt. Sobha Sen, renounced actress of Kolkata, was among the judges who showered praises on SANSAPTAK and bracketed SANSAPTAK's performance with that of the groups of Kolkata. In 2002, it bagged all six best awards for script, production, actor, costume, make-up and set for the plays Canvasse Kankaboti, Sitar Nirbashan and Return of Godot respectively and Best Actress Award and Second Best Production for the play Janmantor in 2003. SANSAPTAK also received wide coverage in electronic and print media. |
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The National School of Drama, New Delhi, India, invited the group to perform Jagor in their Week-end Theatre in 2002 and performed Dakshinapath in NSD's prestigious International Drama Festival (5th Bharat Rang Mahotsav) in 2003. The playwright, Sh. Torit Mitra, was honoured by eminent theatre personality and director, Sh. Prasanna, by presenting a plaque on behalf of National School of Drama. |
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In the year 2004, the group was invited to participate in a Theatre Festival organized by Chittaranjan Memorial Bhawan, C.R.Park, where it performed Katha Kaumodi "Thikana", a Reading Theatre and two solo productions Sporsho and Janmantor. |
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The group was invited by National School of Drama to perform its most promising play Atmadaho in their Week-end Theatre at Sammukh in July 2005. SANSAPTAK also was invited at Legends of India in the month of November 2005 to perform Atmadaho along with Girish Karnad's play The Broken Images and NSD's Ghasiram Kotwal. |
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CHANDRABIDHOUTO |
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CANVASSE KANKABOTI |
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AROKTO SHOMOY |
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DAKSHINAPATH |
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JANMANTOR |
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ATMADAHO |
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