Critical Revisit of The Tempest in Dhaka in 1987 The Aesthetic Subversion of an Analytical Guerilla

The theatrical practice of the plays written by the English author William Shakespeare has been an omnipresent cultural phenomenon across the globe. Shakespeare is also a significant proponent of living performance culture through translation, adaptation and reimagination in Bangladesh. This essay critically revisits and scrutinises a theatre production of Shakespearean romance, The Tempest, produced in Dhaka in 1987 by using data collected from primary sources and secondary materials. This research employs a semiotic mode of theatre analysis and critical theories to understand how The Tempest had been appropriated as an analytical guerrilla regarding translation, creation (rehearsal and performance) and reception.