GARAL
Under the commitment and direction of Sima Mukhopadhyay, Rangroop continues to place women at the centre of its plays, as exemplified by its latest, Garal. Based on the short story by […]
MUKTIBODH | THIRU NANGAI
Atelier’s Campus Theatre festival notches up its 12th season, and visited Kolkata again last weekend with its curation of the best of Delhi’s college productions. How we wish that someone
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RAHU CHANDALER HAR | A NEW TESTAMENT OF ROMEO AND JULIET | TRINGSHA SHATABDI | BHAGER MANUSH
Aneek’s annual Ganga Jamuna Natya Utsab has become the best platform to view a range of Bangladeshi theatre. This year, most of the seven productions interpreted landmarks from various literatures.
HOJANG TARET | ABHIJNAN: THE JOURNEY OF THE RING | CROWNLESS PRINCE | ANDHA YUG | ZABRIKO | FOUL PLAY | RAM
Because the Minerva festival receives generous public funding, it attracts more stringent scrutiny. Its attempt to replicate the failed model of the National School of Drama Mahotsav stupefies. Viewers had
THE GATHERED LEAVES
Centre Stage Creations’ presentation of The Gathered Leaves by Ruchika Theatre Group (New Delhi) warmed the hearts of the audience, but other reasons add to our appreciation of it. Director
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PERFORMING JOURNEYS | SHASITA SHARIR
Unconventional performance allows artists to explore subjects in ways that mainstream theatre often cannot. The British Council’s support of intercultural collaboration exposes local performers and viewers to new approaches through
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SHAKESPEARE ON THE CALCUTTA STAGE: A CHECKLIST
A Jadavpur University Department of English research project to catalogue productions of Shakespeare in Calcutta in all languages from the beginnings to 1999, published as Shakespeare on the Calcutta Stage:
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NASIKA PURAN
We have another Bengali adaptation of world-famous French drama, this time Minerva Repertory Theatre’s Nāsikā Purān, based on Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), the very last flourish of European
ART
Seldom does theatre risk dialogue-driven drama nowadays, so bitten has it become by a misperceived need for onstage action. Therefore, Kolkata Praxis’s Bengali adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Art stands out
MRITYU UPATYAKA | YES | MEGHDUTAM
Rangakarmee’s Binodini Keya Mancha continues as an alternative venue, hosting intimate theatre regularly. Let’s look at some recent short plays there. Antarmukh’s Mrityu Upatyakā in Bengali shocks spectators with its
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VRITRAJ | DHABA
Happily, an established festival from outside Kolkata organized an offshoot here, which bodes well for us, starved of national content. We hope Jairangam Fringes makes it an annual sojourn because,
AN EVENING WITH A MR TAGORE | WAIT UNTIL DARK | SIX DEAD QUEENS AND AN INFLATABLE HENRY
Fifty years ago, when The Amateurs and The Oskars ruled Calcutta’s English theatre, a band of school-leavers formed The Red Curtain, which staged critically acclaimed productions in the 1970s. Now
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