Rimini Protokoll
July 19, 22, 23, 24: Call Cutta At Home is on at the Access Point festival, St. Petersburg, Russia. Conceived by Rimini Protokoll, who have done interactive theatre (where the
July 2020
RAFTA Scriptwriting Competition
Mukul Ahmed of London, no stranger to Kolkata theatre, where he has regularly directed in recent years, has announced a new script competition: https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunities/rafta-scriptwriting?fbclid=IwAR0eKY6yvODzGTioOTyglBbP4UjWYvEb0bHG_foZRts4y0a9CwAj1pAOyiw
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USHA GANGULI
My tribute to Usha Ganguli appeared in The Wire, April 2020: https://thewire.in/the-arts/usha-ganguli-tribute
MAHUA | AVALANCHE | THE SWEETIES | WAITING FOR PIZZA
Collegians usually earn their theatre spurs by interpreting existing plays – as in the 11th national Atelier Campus Theatre Festival and the latest production by Dramatically Correct, though all of
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BENGALI DRAMA IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Published as “Bengali Drama” in Take on India, December 2019: It has become a knee-jerk reflex among Bengalis, habitually bemoaning their lost glories, to write off contemporary Bengali theatre compared
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MANY MYTHS, ONE MAN: GIRISH KARNAD
My obituary on Girish Karnad, published in Mail Today: https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/many-myths-one-man-girish-karnad-1547245-2019-06-12 Don’t let them escape. Men, women, children – cut them all down. Set the hounds after them. Search each wood,
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NEW VISTAS INTO TAGOREAN THEATRE
My illustrated lecture delivered at Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, in May 2019, on YouTube in 3 parts:
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UNIVERSITY THEATRE
An article written for the Jadavpur University Society of American Studies in September 2018: When one retires, one reminisces, to the extent of boring listeners to death. But that’s what
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