Our next production in 1981 marks a significant departure from its predecessors in its emphasis on the purely personal and the eternal rather than on the political and the contemporary.The vast panorama of contemporary politics, history and myth shrinks to the apparently narrow, private space in Tapaswi–O-Taragini by Buddhadeb Basu, where one suddenly confronts his own self while trying to know someone else.
I am looking for the face I had
Before the world was made
these lines from Yeats contain the germ of this play and are echoed in the courtesan Tarangini’s question, “ why can’t I see the face masked by my face, the face you had seen ?“
Her query had seemed to us, and still seems, to voice the urgency of the eternal human quest for self knowledge and the meaning of life, a quest that extends the ostensibly limited self into infinity.
The production was revived in 1998.
Photos of the Production
(P)reviews of the Production
Credits –
Lights – Tapas Sen
Music - Debashish Dasgupta ( 1981) / Suman Chattopadhyay ( 1998 )
Set Design – Kanchan Dasgupta ( 1998 )
Stage – Manu Datta
Direction - Salil Bandyopadhyay
