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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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
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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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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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
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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My tribute to Usha Ganguli appeared in The Wire, April 2020: https://thewire.in/the-arts/usha-ganguli-tribute
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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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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My obituary on Girish Karnad, published in Mail Today: https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/many-myths-one-man-girish-karnad-1547245-2019-06-12 Don’t let them escape. Men, women, children – cut them all down. Set the hounds after them. Search each wood,
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My illustrated lecture delivered at Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, in May 2019, on YouTube in 3 parts:
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An article written for the Jadavpur University Society of American Studies in September 2018: When one retires, one reminisces, to the extent of boring listeners to death. But that’s what
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