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Notee
Binodini
(A
drama on the life of Notee Binodini)
Directed by
Jogabrata
Majumdar
A
few pictures from Notee Binodoni
A short 1 minute teaser
April
8, 2023 (Saturday) at 3:00 PM
Rockville Civic Center
Auditorium
603 Edmonston Drive,
Rockville, MD 20851
Natyakrhiti
YouTube Channel
Watch a short YouTube video to know
about Binodini
"Blessings
of Ramakrishna and
drama maestro Girish Ghosh
on Notee Binodini resulted in her
success as the first woman
in the field of Drama at the end of
19th century."
Click
here
for the flyer
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Binodini
Dasi (1862–1941), also known as
Notee Binodini, was a
Calcutta-based, Bengali-speaking
renowned actress and thespian.She
started acting at the age of 12 and
ended by the time she was 23, as she
later recounted in her noted
autobiography, Amar Katha (The Story
of My Life) published in 1913.
Born to prostitution, she started
her career as a courtesan and at age
twelve she played her first serious
drama role in Calcutta'sNational
Theatre in 1874,
under the mentorship of its founder,
Girish Chandra Ghosh. Her career
coincided with the growth of the
proscenium-inspired form of European
theatre among the Bengali theatre
going audience.
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