Four-day staging of ‘An Inspector Calls’, a Bengali adaptation of JB Priestley’s renowned play with the same name, concludes. The final show of the play was staged at 7:30pm yesterday at the Nilima Ibrahim Auditorium of Bangladesh Mahila Samiti in the capital’s Baily Road area.
Produced by Jatrik Productions, the play is adapted and directed by Naila Azad, a renowned theatre activist, director and actor.
‘An inspector calls’, written in 1945, is a mid-20th-century classic drama which was originally premiered in Moscow, the Soviet Union in 1945. In the past 70+ years, this drama has been staged in many countries and have been popular in the UK, US, Russia, German. The play is about a police inspector who tries to solve a Murder case of a young factory worker by interrogating a wealthy English family about their involvement and responsibilities.
This production was first staged at the Gulshan Club in May 2016. Jatrik Productions, with the support of Dove, brought back the show with a new cast and crew to give the audience a spectacular piece of theatre at the same venue last year.
The cast of the play includes Baizid Haque Joardar, Iresh Zaker, Mitul Mahmud, Priyam Sarker, Samina Luthfa, Shakil Ahmed, Toufikul Islam Emon and Wasi Noor Azam.
