The play ‘Birjees Qadar Ka Kunba’ is the Indian adaptation by Raghuvir Sahay, of the original Spanish play ‘The House of Bernada Alba’ written by the revolutionary genius of Spanish theatre, Federico Garcia Lorca in the year 1936, who brought vivid and tragic poetry to the stage with his powerful dramas. Birjees, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The play eloquently deals with culture of deprivation and denial that manifests itself in violence and hostility which is synonymous with the repression suffered by women in rural or small town women in Indian context till this date. The tragedy of virginity is persistent across cultural boundaries and sexual and social freedom continues to be a never ending struggle.
Birjees Qadar Ka Kunba
Play
1.5 hrs
May 25, 2019 7:30 pm Saturday
Organizer
Nibha Theatre Ensemble
Nibha Theatre Ensemble has come into being in the memory of Ms. Nibha Joshi, a remarkable scholar of arts and aesthetics, who kept reinforcing in her humble ways that every art has a purpose and a true artist is the one who recognizes it and relentlessly tries to accomplish it. Taking inspiration from her philosophical thoughts on art and an artist’s responsibility, the group is an initiative to connect with the theatre enthusiasts of Hyderabad.
About the Director:
NasreenIshaque is a graduate of National School of Drama (1999), with specialization in Acting. Apart from working in group theatre, she worked with the NSD repertory company from 2000 to 2006. After repertory she had a wide range of work experience like- teaching in ISOMES -BAG FILMS,Delhi( Noida) , a voice over artist, costume designer, assistant teacher in NSD, faculty of theatre arts at IB school PATHWAYS, Gurugram and Oakridge International school , Hyderabad, and working as guest artist for NSD repertory plays.Some of her directorial work include Bertolt Brecht’s Caucasian chalk Circle and The good woman of Setzuan, Arthur Miller’s ‘ A view from the bridge’, G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion, Paro Anand’s Wingless, Deobrah Elliss’s The Breadwinner, Renatta Allen’s Tom Fool, William Shakespeare’s Much Ado about nothing, Macbeth and A midsummer night’s dream, Neil Simon’s ‘The good doctor’, Moliere’s Tartuffe, play ‘Sab Thath Pada Reh Jayega’ a Hindi adaptation of the American play ‘You Can't Take it With You’, by George S Kauffman and Moss Hart, Ruskin Bond’s ‘The blue umbrella’, Shankar Shesh’s Hay Mayavai Sarovar, Bada Sircar’s ‘Beyond the land of Hattamala’, Agha Hashr Kashmiri’s Parsi plays ‘ Khoobsurat Bala and Said e- Hawas , etc.