Intimate Theatre Evenings, at Padatik Little Theatre, began this month with three varied productions, each experimental but none completely successful. Most groups still approach such small spaces like any standard
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Utpal Dutt was one of the two paradigms of post-Independence Bengali theatre. If the Group Theatre movement since the Fifties contributed two new directions—the political and the poetical—then his is
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Pirandello has become the flavour of this year in Bengali theatre, with a biodrama as well as two plays running concurrently. Sayak’s Bhālo Lok rediscovers the forgotten All for the
Blackout … Music … Spotlight … Action! Bhekti … Malai kofta … Spaghetti … Aludam Kashmiri? ls this some kind of time and space warp where drama’s got jumbled up
Vengeance appears to preoccupy Debasish Ray, at least on the basis of the new productions he has directed for Anya Theatre and his own group Theatre Platform. He wrote Anya
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Not too many people know of the innovative “Third Theatre” movement pioneered by Badal Sircar in this city, a theatrical medium that is quite separate from the folk or traditional
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Chidakash Kalalaya pursues prodigiously its unique project of resurrecting Sanskrit forms, directed by Piyal Bhattacharya. After bhanika last year, it turned to another uparupaka or minor genre, the ramakrida, earlier
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Politically a state that has long suffered from governmental neglect leading to frustration and extremism among its youth, scientifically the state with the highest ratio of AIDS cases in the
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Since my code of conduct during the run-up to elections forbade comment – good or bad – on the artistic work of parliamentary candidates, I refrained from reviewing Sansriti’s Chānd
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(This article on his tribulations in 1992 appeared in a considerably curtailed form in The Telegraph, 3 July 1992. For the record, I have restored my original draft here.) Habib
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Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman ranks very high among essential plays of the 20th century. In one end-of-the-millennium poll, critics placed it at the top, alongside Waiting for Godot.
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(The trailblazing American feminist dramatist came to Calcutta in 1992.) The first sight of her belies the image one has created from reading her work. Looking like a kindly mater,
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