In the contemporary, Bengali theater is based on the experiments conducted by some playwrights such as Utpal Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore and Badal Sircar. Utpal Dutt was a well-known actor, director and playwright. He founded the "Little Theater Group" in 1947 and staged many works by Shakespeare and Brecht in English. In India, Dutt had first introduced “epic theatre” to Indian audiences (discussed in the next part of this chapter). He emphasized "epic theater" not only in his directing career but also in his dramatic writing. His plays are the result of Marx's strong impact on literature and society. His famous plays, based on the dramatic devices of epic theatre, are: Kallol (1965), Manusher Adhikar, Louha Manob (1964), Tiner Toloar and Maha-Bidroha, etc. But the difference between Brecht and Dutt is the way they used epic theater on stage. Brecht directly presented class struggle on stage while Dutt presented epic theater mixing it with Indian theater tradition. Many of the characteristics of epic theater were already present in the traditional one ...
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