Friday 29th November 2024 – 7:30pm – Shaw Theatre, 100, 110 Euston Rd, London NW1 2AJ
Tickets available at https://shaw-theatre.com/whats-on/rays-of-light
Tour Dates
Friday 29th November 2024 – 7:30pm – Shaw Theatre, 100, 110 Euston Rd, London NW1 2AJ
Tickets available at https://shaw-theatre.com/whats-on/rays-of-light
This is a new musical based on Satyajit Rays’s work which includes the three generations – his father Sukumar Ray and grandfather Upendra Kishore, all of whom were artistes of great repute.
The Project is called Rays of Light and includes artistic works created by the trio through spoken word, anecdotes and narratives through performance – music, dance, play and the visual arts.
SHOW
A proposal for a UK tour Autumn 2022
on
The brilliant Ray family that dazed India and the world
To understand them in the modern context
‘To bring youa story, in full glory, of Bengals’ three greatest knights
Upendra Kishore, Sukumar, Satyajit, U Ray & Sons, three Rays of light
Of Tuntuni, Raja and the Tiger and whimsical rhymes from Abol Tabol
Not the ABC of reason but the nonsense alphabets of Hojoborol
Song of the Road ‘Pather Panchali’ and ‘Jalsaghar’ the Music Room Caring love of fellow men, to redeem today’s pallid doom & gloom’
This show will re-live the exploits of the pioneering Ray family across three generations, that created children’s chronicles, nonsense rhymes, detective stories, surreal music and the most wonderful films ever to come out of the sub-continent.
Introduction
The show will start with excerpts from Satyajit Ray talking about his father, grand-father, and himself. The show will highlight how they evolved with the times and discuss the genres of creativity they embraced
The show starts with music with Upendrakishore Brahmo Sangeet
Narration Upendrakishore biography
His life and times
His childhood
Life in Kolkata
Printing
Role of his pioneering work in Indian publications
His papers and discoveries of half tone printing
His illustrations
Later life
Play in English on translation from Tuntuni stories
Translations
Narration
Sukumar Roy Biography
His inspirations: English nonsense writers
Works of Edward Lear
Works of lewis Carroll
Narration
Sandesh and children’s periodicals
Pioneer’s of nonsense literature
Translation play from Ho JO BO RO Lo
Abol Tabol rhyme dance
Early life / Late life Satyajit Ray
Ray’s Inspirations for Art
His Art and role as illustrator
Inspirations for his films e.g. Kurasawa
Pather panchali excerpt with music
Narration
Ray & Music
Jalsaghar scene with dance
Ray & Tagore intertwined
Charulata scene with play,song and dance
Ray and classical music and history
Shatranj Ki Khiladi scene with Wajid Ali Shah(Akhtar Piya) compositions and dance
Ray & photography
Ray as writer
Feluda stories, Shonku stories enacted
Finale – intertwining compositions from all three
Potential additional events around the tour
Ray Films
Poetry from all three and other Indian/Bengali poets including Urdu Shairis
Children’s literary event