Story line: The story of the honey hunter begins in the Sundarbans where three rivers meet in a huge mangrove forest. Everyone who lives in the Sundarbans loves honey, but one most of all- a small, spiky-haired boy named Shonu. One year, due to climate change the seasons in the Sundarban get mixed up and the region is plagued by powerful cyclones followed by drought and hunger. Shonu becomes so unbelievably hungry that he sneaks into the mangrove forest and breaks the golden rule: he takes honey from the hives even though it is not yet the harvest time. Shonu doesn’t quite realise that what he has done could get him into deep trouble with the almighty demon tiger Dakkhin Rai and the goddess Bonbibi, the Guardian Deity of the Sundarbans.
নাটক কাহিনী: সুন্দরবনের মধুশিকারিপুত্র শনু মিয়ার রোমাঞ্চভরা জীবন নিয়ে মধুশিকারির গল্প এগিয়ে যায়। প্রলয়ঙ্কারি ঘূর্ণিঝড়ের কবলে পড়ে শনু মিয়ার পরিবার হারায় সব, যেমন সুন্দরবনের গাছপালা-পশুপাখি হারায় প্রান। কিন্তু প্রকৃতি তার নিজের খেলায় নিজেকে পুননির্মান করে। অর্বাচীন শনু মধু ক্ষুধায় কাতর হয়ে অকালে মধু শিকার করে প্রান প্রকৃতি ও পরিবেশের হুমকি হয়ে দাড়ায়। বনের রক্ষাকর্তা দক্ষিণ রায় মতান্তরে রয়েল বেঙ্গল টাইগার মানুষের হিংস্রতারুপী শনু মিয়াকে সংহার করে নিতে চায় প্রতিশোধ। বনবিবির বাঁধায় শিশু শনু মিয়া প্রান ফিরে পায় কিন্তু এক শর্তে। কিন্ত কি সেই শর্ত ?
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Theatre Technology, Aesthetics and Language through Action. It is an open space for performance that symbolizes the origin of rituals and performances in pre colonial Bengal. BotTala also signifies the great tradition of open oratory, poetry, music of Bengal and symbol of public space that belongs to none in specific but to all in general.
BotTala as a performance space of twenty first century aspires to provide such an open platform to all theatre activists home and abroad to engage in their creative and intellectual endeavours. We, despite all odds, dream for a space promoting theatre for people, to search for tradition and heritage to speak up for the present and future. We also believe that there is no theatre estranged from politics and as such no politics detached from theatre of the colonial east. Therefore, BotTala’s theatre can never be removed from its base in history and tradition of Humanity as well as its vision for a changed tomorrow challenging authority in today’s theatre. As such, BotTala intend to encourage a space for professional theatre activism, which entails professional attitudes and behaviour in present forms of theatre and activism.
BotTala calls for participation from all spheres of cultural activists and citizenry of the global village to engage, encourage, promote and support a new era in theatre activism and towards creating a new phase of cultural solidarity through BotTola.
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