Epic Actors Workshop

Producing Company: Epic Actors Workshop

Written by Rabindranath Tagore

Director: Prof. Farley Richmond (USA)

Translated from Bengali by: Dr. Sudipto Chatterjee (UK)

Synopsis

Although written in 1890, Tagore’s Sacrifice, a drama in English based on the Bengali play, Bishorjon, is still relevant today. Among the many questions addressed are: “Does the state have the right to control religion?” and “Should blood sacrifice be tolerated in a modern society?” Masks and stylized costumes elevate the dynamic conflicts in this new and poetic translation of a 120-year-old work.

The Director

Farley Richmond is Professor of Theatre and Film Studies and Director of the Center for Asian Studies, University of Georgia. He has directed a wide range of Asian and western plays and musicals. Among his Asian production he lists, Sudraka’s The Little Clay Cart, Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session and Sakaram Binder, Karnad’s Hayavadana, Saktibadra’s Surpanakha, or the Amorous Demoness, and Mishima’s The Lady Aoi. Among some of his western productions are Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, Miller’s The Crucible, Hwang’s M. Butterfly, Bernstein’s West Side Story, Bart’s Oliver!, and Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar. In 2006 he directed Mozart’s The Magic Flute for the Chicago Cultural Center incorporating conventions from Indian and Balinese theatre traditions. In 2002 The University of Michigan Press published his CD-ROM entitled, Kutiyattam: Sanskrit Theater of India. His latest work on the gesture language in kutiyattam  

Director Prof. Farley Richmond