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 […]
Sanglap Kolkata’s Hulusthul, at Girish Read More »
Dramatist-director Debasish’s new play about an old building facing demolition, whose residents face eviction, and whose inhabitants include non-humans too. Highly recommended: ★★★★★. Read my review.
Theatre Platform’s Gharer Madhye Bari, at Tapan Read More »
Freshly kissed by a man, an eleven-year-old girl believed she had fallen in love. Now an adult, she is soaked in pain. As the body reveals itself to be a
Seconds Before Coming (Delhi), at Urban Theatre Read More »
The highly popular Bengali play written by Rabindranath Maitra in 1932, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.
Rangroop’s Manmayi Girls School, at Academy Read More »
Written and directed by Suman Sengupta, a portrayal of the dilemma of an accomplished commercial artist who sells out to the ruthless and competitive contemporary ratrace.
Dwitiya Satta’s Na Tor Janya, at Academy Read More »
A blind and wheelchair-bound youth, highly intelligent, wants to know about light from his physicist father. Written and directed by Suman Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
Chetla Krishti Sansad’s Amar Gan, at Academy Read More »
An original play written by Rakesh Ghosh and directed by Santanu Das, on Girish Ghosh’s historic production of Chaitanya Lila in which Nati Binodini stunned audiences with her male impersonation,
Kalyani Kalamandalam’s Radha-Ramakrishna, at Madhusudan Read More »
A young researcher visits an old, dilapidated hall in north Kolkata, whose octogenarian owner, initially hostile, gradually starts narrating his story and the miraculous journey of a young Gomira dancer
Aneek’s Angina Jure Bhor, at Tapan Read More »
Hindustani adaptation by a new local group of Rajiv Joseph’s dark drama that won the Obie award for best new American play in 2016. Two guards at the newly built
Out of Nowhere’s Guards at the Taj, at Padatik Read More »
British dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Winter Hill, translated and set in Bengal by Tirthankar Chanda, about a group of women discussing the construction of a luxury hotel in a remote rural
Rangroop’s Bhalo Pahar, at Madhusudan Read More »
Dramatized by Sumantra Chattopadhyay from Abby Mann’s Judgment at Nuremberg about the Nazi trials and directed by Biplab Bandyopadhyay.
Prachya’s Day Amadero, at Academy Read More »
Written and directed by Chandan Sen, Ekanāyaker Sesh Rāt depicts an imaginary strife-torn African nation where a military dictator took over but now faces a popular revolution.
Hajabarala’s Ekanayaker Sesh Rat, at Academy Read More »
