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CENTRESTAGE: Essays on Theatre, Indian and Intercultural

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              My new book has appeared from Seagull, Kolkata. Read a review in Indian Express. Here are the Contents and a review in The Statesman: […]

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Pancham Vaidic’s Rajnaitik Hatya?, at Academy

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Revived production based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s Crime Passionnel about a Communist plot of political assassination, adapted into Bengali and directed by Arpita Ghosh.

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Curtain Call’s Bahaman, at Academy

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Dramatized from Samaresh Majumdar, and directed by Tirthankar Chattopadhyay. A young boy, lost during a festival, takes refuge under a “Master”  who imparts the ultimate philosophy of life: to stop

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Chakdah Natyajan’s Ekta Iskul, at Girish

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Written and directed by Debasish, set in the Tripura hills about the friendship of two boys as they grow up.

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Nat-ranga’s Nolak, at Academy

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Amit Maitra’s drama written in the background of the mid-1990s, around the myth of an accidental act by a baby playfully pulling his mother’s nosering, leading to a nasal tear

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Sudrak’s Morche Para Alo, at Madhusudan

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Debasis Majumder‘s new play on the fragility of human relationships and the pain of breaking them. It highlights three major forms of separation: death, which is a natural consequence to

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Kalyani Mukhosh’s 2034, at Academy

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Inspired by Badal Sircar’s Mani-Kanchan and directed by Ayan Banerjee. The play anticipates the future through the act of a famous magician couple. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.

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Mangalik’s Manush Bhut, at Tapan

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Mangalik’s longest-running production, dramatized from Syed Mustafa Siraj and directed by Samir Biswas. A comedy about a “dead” man coming alive. Recommended: ★★★★

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Stagephiles’ Cocaine, at Padatik

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Pendleton King’s 1916 American play adapted to Kolkata. Set in a cramped attic apartment, it is a raw, unflinching look at two people at the absolute end of their tether.

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Stagephiles’ Cocaine, at Padatik

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Pendleton King’s 1916 American play adapted to Kolkata. Set in a cramped attic apartment, it is a raw, unflinching look at two people at the absolute end of their tether.

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Kalyani Natyacharcha Kendra’s Chatur Ranga, at Academy

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KNK’s new production directed by Kishore Sengupta featuring two couples, friendship, suspicion, deceit. And the truth. Adapted by Ratan Kumar Das from Florian Zeller’s The Truth, where trust is fragile,

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Ichheymoto’s Je Janlagulor Akash Chhilo, at Academy

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Four childhood friends from the 1990s grow up and go different ways, passing through youthful romances, heated arguments and political movements, testifying to changing times through the decades. Dramatized from

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