‘Bouder Pathshala’ staged at AFD

As part of the International Francophonie Festival, a theatre titled ‘Bouder Pathshala’ was staged on the courtyard of the Alliance Française de Dhaka last Friday and Saturday.

Directed by Ashish Khandkar, the play was based on Moliere’s famous social comedy ‘The School for Wives’.

The Space and Acting Research Center and Theater Lab staged the play.

The play begins as Arnolfie’s house is at a busy Paris crossroads. After a few days, the rich old man returned to his house. In the meantime, she has kept her pseudonym, ‘La Index’. Palit is determined to marry Agnis since childhood. Inexperienced Agnis, since she was ‘six’ years old, old Arnolfie dreams of creating his beautiful future and getting involved in his own life.

Agnis, like a bound wife, tries to be educated and raised in that education. Suddenly, Arnolfi is overjoyed to see Horace, the son of Orento, his old friend. Young Horace moves to Paris before his father arrives in Orento, where he meets Agnes in Arnolfi’s absence. Unbeknownst to Horace, this disguised “La Index” is his father’s old friend Arnolfie. Horace forms a passionate romance with Agnis. Incidentally, Horace asks Arnolfie for help in finding Agnis. Arnolfie asks Agnis that, in his absence, a young man comes home and makes love to Agnis. Arnolfie tells Agnis that what he is doing is abusing his youth. He asks Agnis to mind his behavior. Agnis will only marry Arnolfi.

The cast includes Mohammed Amin, Totho Thimothew, Rakibul Hasan, Omar Faruq Khan, Jarin Chakma, Foysal Mahmud, Manisa Orchy, and Songit Barai.