About US
We, Daul A Theatre Group, have been working in Theatre at Santiniketan (the place of the great poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore), West Bengal, India since 2006. Daul registered under the Society Registration of the Government of West Bengal under the Society Registration Act of India (Society Registration no.: S/1L/48760 of 2007-2008). The organization also affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, Government of India and registered as a non profit organization under NGO Darpan as part of the “Niti Aayog”, Government of India.
Unique Id of VO/NGO: WB/2015/0087908
‘DAUL: A Theatre Group’ started its journey on 8th February 2006 with its first production Buro Saliker Ghare Ron (Author – Michael Madhusudan Dutta). In due course of time it continued and is still continuing with many successful productions, such as Shong (Joker) by Rashed Mamun Apu; Yakshapuri – an adaptation of Tagore’s Raktakarabi; Chandalika by Rabindranath Tagore;Tagore’s Sharadotsav; Prem Puran by Afsar Ahmed; Kamala Sundarir Pala, An adaptation of Tagore’s short story Musalmanir Golpo; Tagore’s Dakghar, Guru and some other plays.
Rabindranath Tagore has been our constant inspiration since our first thoughts of forming the DAUL (troupe, in English). Apart from his overarching presence in our aesthetics, we have been trying to assimilate and bear the great theatrical heritage of Bengal. We are relentlessly trying to incorporate many of Bengal’s folk games, dance and all ritualistic performances into our newly thought ‘Actor’s Training Method’, which we have been trying to develop for the last few years. We grounded our first experimentation with this Method in a workshop with the students of Patha-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, in 2015 and subsequently produced Rabindranath Tagore’s play Sharadatsav. Later, we made it a complete version as our group production in 2016. Interestingly, Tagore started to modify his dramaturgy in the first decade of the 20th century, making him the pioneer of the ‘Modern Bengali theatre’. Sharadatsav was his first creation in that initiative.
In addition, we have an international refereed e-journal named Thespian Magazine (ISSN 2321-4805), which is a bilingual e-journal, published both in Bengali and English. It is brought out twice a year as “Nababarsha Sankhya” (Bengali New Year Edition; April-May) and “Sharat Sankhya” (Autumn Edition; September-October). Though the title itself suggests the main focus of the journal, we try to bring together every wing of Art, Literature and Culture through our publication and other sections. Right from the beginning of the journey of Thespian Magazine (2013) we had an aim to furnish it with international outlook and so far we have tried our best to do so and we are privileged to be associated with nationally and internationally recognized personalities.
Publications
Thespian Magazine; An International Refereed Journal of Inter-disciplinary Studies (ISSN 2321-4805)
Editor-in-Chief: Professor (Rtd.) Abhijit Sen, Professor of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.
Contact
Registered office:
Daul A Theatre Group
- Canal Par, Near Digantapally Kali Mandir, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. PIN: 731235
- Email: daul08.02.2006@gmail.com