Bengali theatre’s deep-seated leftist politics resurfaces with uneven results in three productions from outside the city. Bandel Arohi’s Rāt Kato Holo leaves the strongest impact precisely because it treats the
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Two all-women productions brought to our attention once again the discrimination faced by Indian womankind in epic literature and modern society. Both traversed well-trodden ground in contemporary theatre, therefore one
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In an encouraging development for inter-metropolis theatrical interaction, Atelier Repertory Company of Delhi exchanged visits with our own Padatik under a joint initiative named Sanjh, bringing down two productions directed
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Once again theatre demonstrated its expression of more probing and immediate political content than other art forms – this time via two productions from the Hindi belt (therefore more courageous)
Jashn-e-Rang opened with plenty of sound and fury, two consecutive evenings featuring Hindi productions of a famous Marathi reworking of King Lear and an adaptation of Goethe’s Faust. V. V.
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Festival season for the performing arts has returned. Little Thespian, who turn 25 this year, inaugurate their national Jashn-e-Rang on Sunday. Uma Jhunjhunwala wrote and directed their latest play Hazaran
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Bengali theatregoers have the opportunity at present to compare Mohan Rakesh’s Hindi classics from the 1960s in translation, in productions running concurrently. His third and final completed play before his
After many years, the Greek myth of Medea returns to the Bengali stage. Under Tapanjyoti Das’s direction, Rangapat have specialized in luxuriant spectacles of historical India; now their first foray
With seven productions in its current repertoire, Chakdah Natyajan has become a veritable conveyor belt of Bengali theatre, an enviable organizational phenomenon for a group located in the suburbs. The
Three shorter (hour-length) local interpretations of Tagore cover a range of theatrical activities. Shilpi Sangha’s Birpurush arose from a workshop for Howrah high-schoolers, who impress not just with their moving
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Durga may have departed, but her spirit lives in two female solo acts. Lushin Dubey, consistently working for social awareness, stages fact in her current production, Aruna’s Story, presented by
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Gandhiji’s sesquicentenary has galvanized several Bengali groups to mount productions about him, the latest being Swapna-sandhani’s interpretation of Utpal Dutt’s Eklā Chalo Re. Swapna-sandhani had staged another biographical drama immediately
