Alliance Française de Dhaka

🎭Comedy Theater Performance 🎭

Past

Songs of Hawkers

Mar 20, 2025 – Mar 21, 2025

15:30:00
Experimental Theater Hall, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy

Songs of Hawkers

🎭A vibrant comedy in three parts🎭

       

‘Songs of Hawkers’ is a comedic endeavor to highlight the livelihood of the hawkers on the street. They play an essential role in bringing back the humanity to the city. In the chaotic ensemble of city life, the hawkers make life easier for many people with their variety of products and prices cheaper than any supermarket shops. In this theatrical presentation combined with music, dance and puppets, the actors use the technique of Grand Guignol, which is a French form of theatre from the 19th Century. 

‘Songs of Hawkers’ tells three stories of hawkers that follow different characters easily recognizable from everyday reality –

‘The Secret’,

‘The Thief Rewarded’ and

‘The Competition’.

With hints of characters from the different hawkers around us, ‘Songs of Hawkers’ intends to pay a tribute to the street walkers, whose relentless chants bring poetry to our daily life.

Alliance Française de Dhaka presents Songs of Hawkers, a vibrant comedy in three parts, capturing the humor, rhythm, and resilience of street vendors through music, movement, and puppetry.

Production Team:

       
🥇 🪑 Text and Director: Zazie Hayoun
🥈 Assistant: Prajna T. Rubayyat
🥉 Second Assistant: Farjana Akter
🎼 Music for Choreography: Rahul Ananda
💃 Choreography: Farhad A. Shamim
🪆Props Making: Tanji Kun

Actors:

       
🎭 Imam Hossain 🎭 M S Rana
🎭 P K Fazal 🎭 Suraiya T. Mou

 

  • 📅 Date: March 20 & 21, 2025
  • ⏳ Duration: 60 minutes
  • 📍 Venue: Experimental Theater Hall, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, 143/3 Segunbagicha, Ramna, Bangladesh
  • ⏰ Showtime: 3:30 PM
  🎟️ Seats are limited. To secure your reservation, please send an email to: 📧 Email: [email protected]    

Don’t miss this lively and laughter-filled theatrical experience! 😃🎶

   
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Histoires de colporteurs
Une comédie en trois Actes
 
Durée : 60 Minutes
 
” Histoires de colporteurs ” est une comédie visant à mettre en lumière les moyens de subsistance des marchands ambulants dans la rue. Ils jouent un rôle essentiel en redonnant de l’humanité à la ville. Dans l’ensemble chaotique de la vie urbaine, les marchands ambulants facilitent la vie de nombreuses personnes grâce à la variété de leurs produits et à leurs prix moins élevés que ceux des supermarchés. Dans cette représentation théâtrale combinant musique, danse, marionnettes, et acrobaties, les acteurs utilisent la technique du Grand Guignol, une forme de théâtre français du XIXe siècle. ” Histoires de colporteurs” raconte trois fables de marchands des rues qui
suivent différents personnages facilement reconnaissables dans la réalité de tous les
jours.
 
Le secret
Le voleur récompensé
La competition
 
Avec des allusions aux personnages des différents colporteurs qui nous entourent, “Histoires de colporteurs ” entend rendre hommage aux vendeurs de rue, dont les chants incessants apportent de la poésie à notre vie quotidienne.
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Songs of Hawkers
A comedy in three acts
Running time: 60 minutes
 
“Songs of hawkers” is a comedy aimed at highlighting the livelihood of street hawkers. They play an essential role in bringing humanity back to the city. In the chaotic scheme of urban life, hawkers make life easier for many people, thanks to the variety of their wares and their lower prices than supermarkets. In this theatrical performance combining music, dance, puppetry and acrobatics, the actors use the technique of Grand Guignol, a form of 19th-century French theater. “Songs of hawkers ” recounts three fables of street merchants who follow different characters easily recognizable in everyday reality. The secret the rewarded thief the competition with allusions to the characters of the various peddlers around us, “Songs of Hawkers” pays tribute to street vendors, whose incessant singing brings poetry to our daily lives.
 
The secret
The thief rewarded
The competition
 
With allusions to the characters of the various peddlers who surround us, “Histoires de colporteurs” pays tribute to the street vendors whose incessant singing brings poetry to our daily lives.

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