Ananda Lal

Two 19th-century classics of social realism return to the Bengali stage – one comic, the other tragic; one from our own hometown, the other from distant Norway. Theatre historians credit […]

Formed 20 years after its mother group Kathik went defunct, Bachhar Kuri Pare has already staged two productions, both dramatized by the founders Arijit Biswas and Prithunandan Ghose from World

Intimate Theatre Evenings, at Padatik Little Theatre, began this month with three varied productions, each experimental but none completely successful. Most groups still approach such small spaces like any standard

Pirandello has become the flavour of this year in Bengali theatre, with a biodrama as well as two plays running concurrently. Sayak’s Bhālo Lok rediscovers the forgotten All for the

Vengeance appears to preoccupy Debasish Ray, at least on the basis of the new productions he has directed for Anya Theatre and his own group Theatre Platform. He wrote Anya

Chidakash Kalalaya pursues prodigiously its unique project of resurrecting Sanskrit forms, directed by Piyal Bhattacharya. After bhanika last year, it turned to another uparupaka or minor genre, the ramakrida, earlier