Kinoo Kahar’s rag-tag team of performers return from their graves to perform a play about Ghantakarna, the village idiot, who, at his wife’s suggestion, becomes a professional confessor.  He appears before court and, in exchange for money, confesses to crimes that others have committed.  The drama unfolds in Putna, a fictitious village in Bengal, being ruled by an incompetent and power hungry King, his morally-bankrupt Wazir, and a scheming representative of the British East India Company (Laat-Saheb). In a land where greed and power-mongering rules supreme and marriages are built on exploitation, the only person sympathetic to the protagonist is the village notch-girl.  As the play progresses it is apparent that Ghantakarna is headed for doom.  Would he be made to sacrifice his life to cleanse Putna of all wrong-doing? Or, is there hope? More importantly, what does a goat have to do with all this? Come and find out, how it all ends (or not) in Manoj Mitra’s pointed trans-period satire, Kinoo Kahar’s Theater.

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Script - Manoj Mitra

Direction - Arindam Ghosh

Music - Mainak Bumpy Nagchaudhury

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Show Dates:

March 17 2018, Sat, JCC Rockville

March 25 2018, Sun, NOVA, Annandale

July 3, 2018, NABC, Atlantic City, NJ

May 11, 2019, Uttoron, Seattle, WA

June 14, 2020, Quarantine Theater Festival, Mandi Theatre

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