Indian People's Theatre Association
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Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British Raj | |
Type | Cultural Organization |
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President | Prasanna |
General Secretary | Tanwir Akhtar |
Affiliations | N/A |
Website | ipta |
Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) is the oldest association of theatre-artists in
Beginning
The Bangalore unit of IPTA was formed in 1941.
Its initial activities included street plays organized by Binoy Roy of the Bengal Cultural Squad to inform people of the 1942 manmade famine in Bengal. Their ski included a choir 'Bhookha Hai Bengal' created by Vamik Jaunpuri and other songs and plays. The squad included musician Prem Dhawan, drum player Dashrath Lal, singer Reva Roy and actress Usha Dutt. Motivated by this squad, several other cultural groups were formed including the Agra Cultural Squad. IPTA was subsequently formed to organize these local groups at the national level.[3]
Ideologically these groups were inspired by the left movement and the then General Secretary of the Communist Party of India, P.C. Joshi and the General Secrtetary of the Progressive Writers' Association Sajjad Zaheer.[3]
Initial members
Some of the initial members of the group were
Break up and legacy
IPTA Mumbai was another offshoot that has existed over the last six decades and continue to produce dramas till date.[5] IPTA offshoots exist in other parts of India as well.[6]
Group theaters like Nandikar, Spandan of Kolkata still produce their dramas often in the line of the IPTA movement, and recently there has been effort to start a similar movement inspired by the IPTA.[7]
IPTA in West Bengal
At present IPTA West Bengal is a running organisation led by IPTA West Bengal State Committee. The Secretary is Sri Dibyendu Chattopadhyay, President Sri Hiranmoy Ghosal, Asst. Secretary Sri Ashis Deb and Abhijit Ghosh. There are many cultural personalities like mass singer Kankan Bhattacharjee, Shankar Mukherjee, Debidas Tarafder,Mandira Bhattacharya,Sangita Roy Chowdhuri,Shurti Narayan,Subhaprasad Nandi Mazumder,Santosh Karmakar,Ashim Bandyapadhyay,Supantha Basu,Firoj Ahmed,Soma Chanda,Srupratik, Sriparna Mitra, Swapna Banerjee, Manudhirity Kritaniya,Ashok Mukherjee,Biplab Roy, Anjan Chatterjee, Haimantika Roy,Kamal Ghosh,Kunal Dey,Rekha Hembram, Pradip Roy Chowdhury, Ambarish Roy,and many others. Dramatist: Piyus Sarkar,Tapan Hazra,Ashis Chatterjee,Manish Ghosh,Jayanta Chakraborty,Shyamal Bhattacharya,Paritosh Bhattacharya,Shibankar Chakraborty, Actor: Samudra Guha, Subhajit Dhar,Bolanath Mukherjee, Musumi Joarder,Rubi Gandhi, Bapi Dasgupta,Somya Bhowmik,Madhuja Ghoshal, Atanu Mandol,Abhijit Chatterjee,Sandhya Halder,Goutam Saha, Pinakpani Dasgupta, Sugata Banerjee and others. Dancer: Ashis Deb,Kakoli Deb, Dona,Iti,etc. Film Maker Manish Ghosh, Piyush Sarkar, Pradip Chakraborty, Ambarish Roy etc.There are 23 District Committees under this organisation and there are approximately 11,000 Artist members in this organization. IPTA W B has been reorganised in its 3rd conference held on 1967 at Kolkata Bagbazar reading room Library.[8]
IPTA in Assam
The Assam chapter of IPTA, which worked for the development of humanity through culture, was formed in 1947.
In the 21st century, plays like Sadgati (Munchi Premchand), Dur Deshor Kotha, Kio (Phani Sarma), Arjun Tolir Dhumuha (Deb Kumar Saikia) and An Inspector Calls in 2019 directed by Prodyut Kumar Deka were staged in different parts of the State.[11][12] The Assam chapter celebrated the birth centenary of its founder secretary Hemango Biswas in 2012.[13] On the occasion of platinum jubilee of IPTA, the chapter organized a drama festival on 11–12 March in 2019 at District Library, Guwahati. Two plays Laalchurni and Coffee Housot Apeksha (Laxmi Narayan Lal) respectively were staged during the two day event.[14][15]
See also
Further reading
- Theatre and Activism in the 1940s. Essay by ISBN 81-250-1341-5. pp 31–39.
Notes
- ^ Bengali Theatre and Performing Arts. Article in Bangla-online.info Archived 24 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-0-19-860174-6. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
- ^ a b c "About IPTA and its history". IPTA. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ "Constitution of IPTA". IPTA. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ Indian People's Theatre Association. Article in mumbaitheatreguide.com
- ^ Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay (June 2005). A stage for social commitment[usurped]. Frontline. Volume 22, Issue 13.
- ^ Indian Peoples Theatre Association revival by Spandan
- ISBN 978-0761926887.
- ^ Bagchi, Suvojit (2 February 2019). "'Bhupen Hazarika and Hemango Biswas: The soulful music that calmed Assam six decades ago'". The Hindu.
- ^ "'Forgotten Tale: How a Troupe of Artists Healed Assam After the 1960 'Language Riots". 27 December 2018.
- ^ "'AN INSPECTOR CALLS TO BE STAGED ON NOVEMBER 27'".
- ^ "'Assamese adaptation of Priestly's classic in Guwahati'". 27 November 2019.
- ^ "'IPTA tribute to folk artiste - Hemanga Biswas's birth centenary celebrations begin'".
- ^ "'IPTA platinum jubilee'".
- ^ "'IPTA Drama Festival Held at Guwahati'".
External links
- JSTOR 40873487