THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Round Table India and Ladies Circle India conceived a surefire way to support charity by hosting a star vehicle – Sharman Joshi as a police inspector, unlikely as that may […]
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Rangroop’s Takhan Bikel, at Tapan
Mohit Chattopadhyaya’s Bengali adaptation of Russian dramatist Aleksei Arbuzov’s Old World, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
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GARIB NAWAZ | KISSA ANDHER NAGARI KA | NITHALLE KI DIARY | ARAM BAG | DUSRA ADHYAY
Now in its eighth year, Little Thespian’s national festival named Jashn-e-Rang provides Kolkata theatre lovers their only opportunity to see a range of Hindi/Urdu drama from across the country. This
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TEA | GOODBYE, FOREVER!
Bahuswar’s invitation to Ruchika from Delhi to showcase their work at an exclusive festival heralds progress among Bengali groups to grant equal status to theatre in English, usually sidelined. We
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THEATRES REOPEN
Private auditoriums in Kolkata have reopened at last, following the standard operating procedures advised by health authorities. On October 1, Aneek staged Pirandello o Puppeteer (already reviewed here) at Tapan
Kolkata Group Wins 4 Awards at META 2020
The new Bengali production by the young group Ichchhemato, Ghum Nei, won four of the fourteen awards presented at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards this year, in META’s
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HELP FOR THEATRE ARTISTS AFFECTED BY LOCKDOWN
COVID-19 has decimated the finances of innumerable theatre technicians, actors and support staff who work as daily wage earners, and used to get paid after each performance. Since all auditoria
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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
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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