Utpal Dutt with Satyajit Ray NK SINGH In the late '60s and early '70s, Frontier , the Left magazine edited by Samar Sen , used to carry regularly advertisements of E pic Theatre , a magazine devoted to theatre. Like Frontier, Epic Theatre too was published from Calcutta, now Kolkata. T he Editor of Epic Theatre was the leading light of Bengal's vibrant theatre movement, Utpal Dutt . The magazine's name was, apparently, based on Bertolt Brecht ’s Epic Theatre movement . Dutt was not only an advertiser, but also a frequent contributor to Frontier , particularly in its early days. Epic Theatre’ s April issue, whose advertisement is carried below, was a Lenin special, containing inter alia, the full script of Dutt’s firebrand political play Leniner Dak , Lenin’s Call. (The link takes you to a song , Leniner Dak Shuni. ) The association between Samar Sen and Utpal Dutt goes back a long way. In the '60s when Sen used to edit Now, the magazine's Deput...
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