Ekjon Ruhul Amin

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BotTala’s first play is a street drama named “Ekjon Ruhul Amin”, story by Samina Luthfa Nitra, written and directed by Bratto Amin. “Ekjon Ruhul Amin” is a drama based on the thoughts of Ruhul Amin who was killed while demolishing a building and was hung there for 6 days.

The play is an allegorical one and the resemblance with a contemporary incidence in Bangladesh was the basis of a short story on which the play …revolves. Ruhul Amin surrealistically talks to insects, birds and ants while he is already dead and is hung for days and none came to rescue his body from the debris.There were troupe’s from law enforcement and fire services, as well as engineering experts but none tried to rescue the bodies. Amidst of hue and cry from the relatives and families of the dead and undecipherable code language of the public servants that was not known to the public the dead bodies remained stuck in the debris of the fallen building.This is Bratto Amin’s debut play, which is both written and directed by him.

This event is very important since it marks the first step of BotTala – a performance space into its long awaited journey in theatrical excellence while echoing the voice of the subaltern with a hope of creative agency to people.

BotTala’s first play is a street drama named “Ekjon Ruhul Amin”, story by Samina Luthfa Nitra, written and directed by Bratto Amin. “Ekjon Ruhul Amin” is a drama based on the thoughts of Ruhul Amin who was killed while demolishing a building and was hung there for 6 days.

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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.