Friday, October 7, 2011

DESH - Akram Khan's masterpiece at Saddler's Wells and LAL JOMIN at Brady Centre,E1 15th October, direct from Bangladesh via the British Council

Akram Khan's DESH is personal story that takes you to extraordinary places. I've never been to Bangladesh but this show but this takes me somewhere in that direction - at least I imagine so. Its a unique and original journey that is magical and moving but which conjures along the way many images seen before - the storms and childhood of Patha Panchali, Winnie the Pooh's Honey Pot, Sheer Khan, Robert Le Page's washing machine from Far Side of The Moon, the roof trees of Crouching Tiger, the long grasses of Kurosawa...

LAL JOMIN plays at the Brady Centre on 15th October - a one woman show directed by Sudip Chakroborthy in this country for 3 performances only via The British Council - it is about the Bangladeshi war of independance in 1971.