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Celebrating 30 year
(December 1996 - December 2025)
Few words about Bibhaban:
"Someone else has really a very particular idea that you can move without seeing. He puts
a handkerchief over his eyes and moves. And he says if the movement can see, then may be i can see without eyes."
….they are propagating theatre as a form of Journey, where anyone can join and travel
a bit imparting their own interpretations …… ( The Times of India)
Bibhaban is not merely a theatre group but a unique system with a different
theatrical mode. Bibhaban is a name to rekon with on the
contemporary theatre space. (The Asian Age)
…….. with Journey Bibhaban has tried to give the performer – spectator relationship a new
perspective ……. (Hindustan Times)
A system for those who love theatre, live for theatre or perhaps do theatre to live are Bibhaban.
We do not believe that theatre is a static art. Form and content are inter-related and inter-dependent for us.
We believe that an artist is born from a social responsibility. Theatre is not a luxury for us, but a weapon for survival, for the beautification of society.
Bibhaban has been involved with intimate theatre to communicate spectatordirectly, since Dec. 1996. Bibhaban conducting hordes of thought provoking seminars, workshops, Festival, publishing bulletin and performances to realize the truths of time, our time.
Our endeavors
Sl. No. Name of Performance Year
1. Bikalpa
December 1996
2. Tarpar
April 1997
3. Swapno
August 1997
4. Abartan
March 2000
5. Khanan
January 2001
6. Maithun
August 2001
7. Ekti Golper Khonje
September 2002
8. Bechara/ Hanger
February 2003
9. For You
October 2004
10. Maya
May 2005
11. Anway
March 2006
12. Daradi
June 2007
13. Offering
March 2008
14. Black Coffee
August 2008
15. Approach To Silence
February 2009
16. The other story
October 2010
17. Moments
December 2011
18. Synopsis
January 2012
19. Brishti
August 2012
20. Asukh
November 2012
21. Anatoli (The Sunrise)
January 2013
22. Jakhon Eka
April 2013
23.. Waiting
November 2013
24.. Touching your Colour
March 2014
25. Sab pakhi ghare fere
September 2014
26. Antivirus
September 2015
27.Duratara dip
October 2016
28. Nipopekhho
February 2017
29. Confession-
October 2017
30. Budbud
January 2018
31 - Jaiga badal-
March 2018
32.Women
-March 2018
33.Bondhu tor nam mone nei-
August 2018
34. Se...
October 2018
35. Tabuo amra -
June 2019
36. Behind the mirror
December 2019
37.Bhalobasar gan(Songs of love)
March 2020
38.Dialouge in the dark(Online)
August 2020
39.Jodi tumi Chaou
November 2020
40. Jonmobeej
January 2021
41.Amanisha
Feruary 2021
42.Distant island
March 2021
43.Ekti Date Er Golpo
August 2021
44.Anyapoth
Nov 2021
45- Alone but together(distant island)
May 2022
46-Felaram
May 2022
47-Mon kano eto katha bole
August 2022
48-Black Coffee (new version)
November 2022
49-Dialouge in the dark (Offline)
December 2022
50- Nothing to say
May 2023
51-Nasto atmar television
July 2023
52-Binitar Katha
April 2024
53- Mayamon
June 2024
54- char deyaler modhye
June 2024
55- Muktodhara(In search of our time )
August 2024
56-Serching Grotowski
February 2025
57- Ghare ferar gan
May 2025
58-Apnar kache agun hobe
May 2025
59- Na bola kathara
July 2025
60- Adwoita ros
August 2025
Journey - As time goes, a question arise where are we going with this performance?
What do we actually want to share with our friends? Is it only a yearly manifestation of our ideas or a way of living? We
started to search the answer. And the answer came – “it is a ‘Journey’ of our existence, ‘Journey’ of our hopes with some likes and dislikes”. With this realization beside from our performance, since Feb 2002, we are conducting a regular experimental process with Open Theatre– 'Journey’ in the filed of theatre, concept by Supriyo Samajdar.
About Mukta Natya (Open Theatre)
"..One cannot permanently stick to what one already has in one’s hands, what is ‘tried and tested’, what gave us glory. This is a thing of the past. One needs to continue both the adventure and the encounters with oneself and with others, taking up new challenges, at every point in one’s life. ' Jerzy Grotowski
The world is changing very quickly. The old ideologies are breaking down. Everywhere there is the source of destruction. Love and harmony, are words of the past. The present dictionary has only one word - competition. It's only you, you & you. The world is a racecourse and men are horses whose target is to earn fame and wealth.
People express their feelings through language. The present expression comprises - Hit or Die. Weak have no place in life struggle. There is no ideology. Everyone is an extremist. Time has produced family without responsibility, oblivion's consensus, shameless lifestyle. Here, collusion is the music, suicide is escape. Human relationship is a mutual pang.
Amidst this unrest, we feel, theatre is the only medium where live people interact and show a way to others. A society is created by a man. A man returns into the unknown based on his imagination. But, the question remains whom would theatre provoke?
What do we wish from theatre? In a few words, a mutual consciousness. Consciousness about what? We don't have a specific answer. Maybe about anything which is bad. "Bad" is again relative. Theatre workers present whatever they feel is bad and let the audience match their feelings. When the feelings of both match, we try to find a path. Thus, theatre is a path finder of individual as well as society.
It is not easy to build up people's relationship with the actor. Common people view actors as an object of entertainment. This needs to be changed. There remains a clear distinction or a curtain between actors and audience. Both are conscious of their respective position. The feelings are not communicated. If it is, it doesn't last for long. It's a sort of give and take, buyer and seller relationship. An artist who sells emotion well will get more & more customers. But an artist has some social responsibilities, he is at first a human being, then an artist.
Through our research work Journey we try to build up a new relationship,to live on and imagine a beautiful, better society to live in.
Language : Bengali and English and also anyone can participate in their won language
“Art creates another universe of thought against and within the existing one”
Poet’s who’s work has been a part of the text/collage in ‘Journey’:
Rabindranath Tagore, Jibanananda Das, Falguni Roy, Gulzar, Prabal Kumar Basu, Sharmila Ray, Rudra Mohammed Shahidullah, Manibhushan Bhattacharya, Rajib Sinha, Subimal Basak, Subimal Mishra, Taslima Nasrin, Achintya Kumar Sengupta, Sankar Chattopadhyay, Sukhendra Bhattacharya, Shyamal Sen , Suman chattopadhyay, Ananyo Roy,Subimal Misra,Subhas Ghosh, Sanghamitra Ghosh, Sonali Chackraborty, Rudra Goswami,Suchetana Dey & others.
The Performers’ on Space-over the years:
Amarnath Ghosh, Satyajit Roy,Sonali Roy, Shibshankar Saha, Tapan Das,Debashish Haldar, Shubhendu Mondal, Piali Dutta, Synthia Dey, Roni Bikas Barua, Debanjan Basak Bunty Das, Avinash Singh, Oishi Dev, Souruish Das, Sanu Pal Anindyo Bagchi,Rahul Sharma, Tarun Pal, Michaek Hansda, Shounava Basu, Srabantika Roy, Palash Biswas, Sharmistha Saha, Tista Das,Sayani Bhatacharya, Somen Mukherje,Sristi Bhatnagar, Devina Sethe students of St Paul’s College-Sealdah, Students of Jadavpur University,Students of National School of Drama- Delhi, Raja Chackraborty, Puja Banik, Sourya Mukherjee,Angsuman Dey, Arghadeep Ghosh. Soumik Mukherjee ,Vaishali Sinha, Payel Banerjee, Debjani Nayak,,Pratap Mukherjee, Mahum Suhail ,Navamita Chanda,Meenakshi Pathak, Alakesh Samanta, Joyee Roy, Debjit Guha, Abhishek Dey, Tapas Roy, Shunu Sikdar,Manasi Kundu, Bijaya Karmakar,Meghmala Aichroy,Bidisha Sen, Arijit Goswami,Bhaskar Banik,Ishan Karmakar, Dipannita Banik, Sanjoy Baishnab, Shreya Bnerjee, Jayita Dutta, Priyasa Chackraborty, Sangita Teli, Parimal Mondal, Pobitra Mondal & others.
Collaborators of Journey over the years:
Ranjabati Chakri Sircar, ,Abani Biswas, Papiya Ghoshal, Urszula Bernacca, Adriana Ciowoska,Pradip Chatterjee,
,Chirantan Bhaduri, FenjanAbraham, Chattrapati Dutta, Patbadal-a painter’s collective, Saikat Surai, Shilajit Mazumdar, Moushumi Bhowmick, Shantanu Bandopadhyay, Rakhi Ghosh, Samiran Acharya, Sharmi Pandey, Parnab Mukherjee, Rahul Pulkeshi, Jhuma Basak, Amlan Moulik, Rena Mirecka,. Bhakta Das Baul, Malgorzata Szyszka ,Dimple Kaur, Kai irina Hahn,Vinvienza Pastori,Tapan Das, Soma Giri,Kajol Hazra, Sipra Mukherjee, Saptarshi Mukherjee, Swarnendu Sen & others .
Some spaces performed:
YMCA (College Branch, Kolkata), Academy of Fine Arts Gallery (South),Padatik, Birla Academy ,Kala Bhavan(Shantiniketan) Theatre House(Shantiniketan) Bikolpo Book Store(Delhi),Zorba the budda(Delhi ), i matter(Delhi ,Gaganendra Prodarshansala,Anya Theatre Bhavan (Saltlake), (Saltlake), Uttar Dum Dum sadharan Pathagar (Birati), Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata,Tripti Mitra Natyagriha Kolkata, Art & Esthetic। Department- JNUDelhi, Antarmukh NSD Delhi,Studio 21 Kolkata ,Alliance Francaise du Bengale- kolkata, IIIT- Hyderabad,Sunil Madav Art Foundation, ,SRFTI Kolkata, EZCC Kolkata, Tanzil-Shantiniketan, Proscenium Art Centre, Antaranga Natya Charcha Kendra(Jorabagan),Sparsh studio for performing arts, Kukrahati Primary School, Thea Apex Kolkata,Samrat art gallery, New Town, Thea Apex, Ayna Ghar , Uttal Natyagriha and other spaces.
Acknowledgement: Sri Bibhas Chackraborty, Sri Manoj Mitra, Sri Subir Adhikari, Sri Sheo Kumar Jhunjhunwala, Sri Shamanand Jalan, Sri Probir Guha ,Sri Sekhar Das,Sri Somnath Sinha, Sri Dwijen Bandopadhyay, Sri Prabal Kumar Basu, Sri Ashok Biswanathan, Sri Ananda lal, Sri Salil Sarkar,Sri Kuntal Mukhopadhyay, Sri Soven Ganguli , Sri Sujit Samajdar, Smt Jayati Basu,Smt Manisha Adak,Sri Palash Barman,Sri Panchu Roy, Sri Raju Raman, Sri Debesh Chattopadhyay, Smt Sharmistha Ray, Smt Ramanjit Kaur,Sri Samik Bandopadhyay, Smt Sima Mukhopadhyay, Sri Ashok Chattopadhyay,Sri Anish Ghosh, Sri Soumitra Mitra, Sri Prakash Bhattacharya,Smt Sharmi Roy, Sri Asis Das,Smt Suman Sarawgi,Sri Achintya Dutta,Sri Siddhartha Chakraborty,Sri Debasis Dutta,Sri Anish Ghosh Sri Hiran Mitra.Sri Chandra Dasan.Ujjal Mukhopadhya, Dani Karmakar , Palok Chackraborty
Supriyo Samajdar
Director
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