Sansaptak is a Delhi-based theatre group that aims at promoting Bengali performing arts and creating social awareness and foster a literary and cultural sensibility through portrayal of issues and problems of the contemporary life of people, through theatre.
Sansaptak, in collaboration with the Royal Norwegian Embassy will be organising ‘Elegance of Ibsen’, a festival of plays, exhibition and seminar from 15 to 18 November, 2006 at New Delhi.
The festival will be inaugurated by HE Mr. Jon Westborg, Ambassador of Norway to India at the India International Centre for Art (IIC), New Delhi. Two plays ‘Anik’ (Little Eyolf) and Bohubrihee (The Master Builder), in Bengali, scripted and directed by Torit Mitra will be staged at Sri Ram Centre for Art and Culture. A visual exhibition based on life and works of Ibsen will also be displayed during the festival.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is one of the greatest names in world literature. He was a central figure in the modern break-through in the intellectual life of Europe, and is considered the father of modern drama. His plays are still highly actual, dramatising gender-, family- and social issues, and continue to be staged in all parts of the world. It is said that Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.
Sansaptak has produced three major plays inspired and adapted from Ibsen’s major plays namely, ‘Little Eyolf’, ‘Master Builder’ and ‘John Gabriel Borkman’ as ‘Anik’, ‘Bohubrihee’ and ‘Patak’. The former two plays are successfully staged and highly acclaimed in Delhi and Kolkata during 1998 and 2003.