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Cristina Donadio
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Binodini Dasi has been Bengali
theatre’s first and perhaps the most versatile
leading lady ever. During a little over a decade
she acted in some 50 plays. She
became famous for her role as Nemai in Chaitanya Lila. Directed by Girish
Chandra Ghose, one of the pioneers
of Bengali stage, the
play opened a new chapter
in the history of Bengali theatre. After
watching her performance Ramakrishna, the seer of Dakhisneswar, went to the green room and blessed Binodini saying “Ma tomar chaitanya hok” (Mother, let enlightenment dawn on you.).And now Cristina Donadio,
one of the biggest stars of both stage and screen in Italy, is making a film on her!
As she explains, “I see a lot of similarities between Neapolitan and Bengali
theatre of Kolkata.
There is the same amount of enthusiasm and
passion. I want to make a movie
about Binodini Dasi and it may be a co-production between India and Italy. I think it is not only a story of an actress but also of a great woman.
In both Italy and India, there is a surge of
violence against women.
As a women performer I want to address the issue”
Cristina has been directed
by the likes of Frederico Fellini in La Citta
Delle Donne and Werner
Shroeter, and
has acted with the likes of Ben Gazzarra,
Treat Williams and Klaus Kinsky.She was here in Kolkata
International Theatre Festival
organized by Kalindi Bratyajon.
Talking about the contemporary Italian theatre scenario,
she says,
“The scenario of theatre in Italy is good. I come from Naples, which has a deep tradition
and culture of theatre. We have traditional Italian drama and many theatre companies work on classics like Shakespeare and Greek tragedy. Since 1980's there
was change in the
scenario and
theatre became more close to the body and not just about script.
We understood that tradition is important but at the same time to be non-conventional. Italian audiences
like to watch “unconventional” plays that are “rooted in tradition”. The theatre
became more real and
since then there have been several theatre
festivals in Italy.”
At the same time, she
expresseed her concern about certain aspects of Italian
theatre today. “The government in Italy isn’t doing much for culture. We are going through a severe
economic crisis and unfortunately the first cut in the public money
was made in culture. We
are suffering. The last twenty years Berlusconi
messed up the cultural
field in Italy. He is the owner of many television channels and many newspapers and magazines and showed women as sex symbol.
We are living in a corner and the real tradition is getting lost. We have to fight against cinema that
portrays women as sex objects,
but we are surviving.”
When asked about her advice to the aspiring
theatre players, she says, “Many people
there say I am doing
a character. I guess this is wrong. Rather one should say I am being
a character. One
needs to feel
the character. This
is the right
approach.”
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