Ichheymoto’s Ghum Nei, at Academy
Based on Utpal Dutt’s early play about lorry drivers, directed by Saurav Palodhi. Highly recommended ★★★★★. Winner of META awards. Read my review.
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Karunamoyee Saptarshi’s Bidaybaran, at Tapan
Chekhov’s classic Uncle Vanya adapted to an old, decaying estate in rural Bengal and directed by Somudranil Sarkar.
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Naye Natua’s Meghnadbadh Kabya, at Academy
Dramatized from Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s epic and directed by Goutam Halder, his long-running solo hit.
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Mukhomukhi’s Pratarana, at Girish
Soumitra Chatterjee’s adaptation of Pinter’s Betrayal, a pathbreaking play that develops in reverse chronological sequence. Directed by Poulomi Chatterjee. Marking the 30th anniversary of Mukhomukhi.
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Little Thespian’s Chehre, at Gyan Manch
Adapted into Urdu by S. M. Azhar Alam from The Sins of the Mother by American playwright Tony Devaney Morinelli. It is a one-act all-women psychological family drama that examines
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Chetana’s Meghe Dhaka Ghatak, at Academy
Marking Ritwik Ghatak’s birth centenary, this biodrama by Jeet Satragni, unlike the usual portrayal of Ghatak as an unwavering and fearless rebel, delicately explores his early years as a romantic
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Sansriti’s Pratham Partha, at Academy
Director Debesh Chattopadhyay’s faithful interpretation of Buddhadeva Bose’s verse drama on Karna’s choice before the war begins.
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Sanglap Kolkata’s Hulusthul, at Academy
Dramatized from Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s Ek Āshcharja Pheriwālā by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and directed by Debasish. A mysterious hawker sells seemingly useless things, which evil people conspire to capture, while an eccentric
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Cinebahini’s Boka Baksho, at Gyan Manch
Based on Pinter’s early one-act two-hander, The Dumb Waiter, adapted into Bengali by Soumit Deb.
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Sudrak’s Morche Para Alo, at Girish
Debasis Majumder‘s new play on the fragility of human relationships and the pain of breaking them. It highlights three major forms of separation: death, which is a natural consequence to
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Padatik’s Iski. Uski. aur Unki. [love] Kahaniyaan, at Padatik
Padatik’s new play translated and dramatized from Annie Zaidi’s Love Stories #1 to 14 by Rakesh Tripathi and directed by Anubha Fatehpuria. The unusual love-lives of three characters from three of
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Chakdah Natyajan’s Jatra Gopal, at Academy
An actor passes himself off as an affordable alternative to the famous Jatra star Shantigopal and even plagiarizes the latter’s famous scripts. Written by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay and directed by Sudipta
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