ENAD: Ekti Natoker Dol

Instead of enacting Tagore's plays, ENAD adapted Ranjon Ghoshal's one-act play into a multi-cast play, and brought to the audience a glimpse of how Tagore's philosophy of universal brotherhood emerged. Drawing from Bengal's simple rural life and folk traditions and his own faith in embracing humanity irrespective of differences, Tagore stood firmly against narrow definitions of nationalism. ENAD's productioon is as relevant today as it was when Tagore espoused his philosophy of universalism. The play was in English and included Tagore's songs in Bengali.

Rural Bengal, with its long history of spiritualism, sang melodies that celebrated nature and its gifts. Tagore drew on such traditions, composed lyrics, and recognized the oneness of all living beings, big and small.

Aniket (one who has no home) stages the expectations and disillusionment of a young couple who returns to India from the United States only to find they are not 'at home' in the land they grew up in, either.

Written in 1965 by Badal Sircar, the play focuses on the internal turmoil of a conscientous, thinking man as he watches helplessly the status of a war-torn world. Staged in 2005, ENAD staged this play as the ongoing global conflicts made Sircar's play very relevant.

A thriller including love, trust, betrayal, and murder, was staged as part of 'Natya Mela' in Los Angeles.

Chhenra Collage (A Collage Torn)' examines complexities of human relationships. The play calls on the audience to question if cracks always exist or if they are circumstantial.

Drawing on the theme of good old neighborly suppport, this play shows an elderly man who is rescued from abject loneliness and poverty. Althoguh the play is set in Bengal, the value of neighborly relations speaks to everyone in the audience.

Playbill of ENAD's production of 'Balabhpurer Rupkotha' in 2001. The play was written by Badal Sircar in 1963-1964.

Poster of ENAD's first original play, 'Chhenra Collage (A Collage Torn)'

The play is set in a semi-fictional kingdom of India in the Middle Ages, before the Maurya period. A poor Brahmin (priestly caste) man's soul gets transported into the physical body of a king. The havoc that ensues, owing to the conflicts between the mind of a poor man and the body of a rich man, helps the play question social status, class, privilege, and cultural background.

Marking Badal Sircar's birth centennary, 'Shesh Nei' stages the tension between the middle class's complacency and the unending cycle of triumphs and dejections, orchestrated by unfulfilled expectations. The protagonist is blamed by many around him for not fulfilling their expectations and then each accuser stands trial, as well, for failing someone else.

Ron' brings to stage the tensions between idealism about war, glory, amd nation and the harsh reality of men and women deployed in service.

The play anticipates contemporary concerns with the use and abuse of tremendous technological power. In a musical fantasy, 'Robotana' shows powerful people grabbing wealth and resources away from poorer people who want to use a robot for good but fall short of achievement owing to lack of resources.

Parents of an Indian American soldier deployed in an ongoing war clash with the heady idealism of an army officer visiting from India who supports the war. The father of the soldier knows his son has fallen in service but has kept the news form his wife who will be devastated. The father's arguments with the army officer from India reach an untenable moment, to the dismay of the soldeir's unsuspecting mother and other guests, but an arrival at the door stuns everyone.