Chetana’s Marich Sambad, at Gyan Manch
Revival of Chetana’s classic production, written and directed by Arun Mukhopadhyay.
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Rangapat’s He Sindhusaras, at Academy
Rangapat’s latest production, based by dramatist Ujjwal Chattopadhyay on the making of Chekhov’s classic The Seagull, recreating the work of the Moscow Art Theatre, its director Stanislavski and lead actress
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Angik’s Binodini Opera, at Kala Mandir
Biographical drama on Nati Binodini co-written by Abanti Chakraborty and Sibashis Bandyopadhyay, and directed by Abanti Chakraborty. Read my review.
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Little Thespian’s Patjhad, at Academy
Adapted from Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie, revival of the production directed by S. M. Azhar Alam.
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Ichheymoto’s Ghum Nei, at Gyan Manch
Based on Utpal Dutt’s early play about lorry drivers, directed by Saurav Palodhi. Highly recommended ★★★★★. Winner of META awards. Read my review.
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Pancham Vaidic’s Rajnaitik Hatya?, at Madhusudan
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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Kalyani Natyacharcha Kendra’s Nim Amrita, at Academy
Adapted from Somerset Maugham’s play on euthanasia, The Sacred Flame, by Bhaskar Lahiri and directed by Kishore Sengupta.
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Sanglap Kolkata’s Hulusthul, at Academy
Dramatized from Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s Ek Āshcharja Pheriwālā by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and directed by Debasish. A mysterious hawker sells seemingly useless things, which evil people conspire to capture, while an eccentric
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Nandipat’s Chandrabati Katha, at Academy
Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play about Chandrabati, the 16th-century poet who composed the first Bangla Ramayan from the perspective of Sita, as well as parts of the Maimansingha Gitika. Directed by Prokash
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Chetana’s Meghe Dhaka Ghatak, at Academy
Marking Ritwik Ghatak’s birth centenary, this biodrama by Jeet Satragni, unlike the usual portrayal of Ghatak as an unwavering and fearless rebel, delicately explores his early years as a romantic
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4th Bell’s Hapi-D, at Tapan
An ebullient Bengali pastiche of Hamlet. 4th Bell debuted in 2011 with this play, deliberately and delectably perverting Shakespeare’s tragedy into a festive comedy written and directed by Aniruddha Dasgupta.
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Rage (Mumbai)’s The Siddhus of Upper Juhu, at Birla Sabhagar
Rage’s old production with Rajit Kapur and Shernaz Patel, an Indianization of Neil Simon’s Prisoner of Second Avenue (unacknowledged in the credits). Presented by Anamika Kala Sangam. Read my review.
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