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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