Rang Manch brings Bengali author’s story to Perth stage

Key points

• Rang Manch Production presented The Mystic Lamp, known in Bengali as Adbhut Chirag, at Nexus Theatre, Murdoch University, on the production's closing day. The play adapts a short story by Bengali author Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay and was previously staged in Hindi.
• More than 20 actors took part, along with young performers from Natyashala, the children's theatre academy linked to the company.
• The Consul General of India in Perth attended, and cast members from both the Hindi and English versions were felicitated afterwards by the Consul General and Yaz Mubarakai MLA.