Sudrak’s Shikh-kha Jatir Merudanda, at Academy
Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” satire on education directed by Debasis Majumdar.
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Chetla Krishti Sangsad’s Amar Gan, at Sisir Mancha
A blind and wheelchair-bound youth, highly intelligent, wants to know about light from his physicist father. Written and directed by Suman Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★
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Jadavpur Ramyani’s Haraner Natjamai, at Madhusudan
Dramatized from Manik Bandyopadhyay and directed by Arun Mukherjee. The story revisits the historic Tebhaga Movement of 1946-47 in Bengal, where Haran, an old sharecropper, has gone half-mad after police
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Rangroop’s Spare Parts, at Academy
Written by Swapnamoy Chakraborty and directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. An ordinary man’s rise to money, fame and power lead him astray from his earlier humanity.
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Chetana’s Mahatma Banam Gandhi, at Academy
Translated by Arun Mukherjee from Ajit Dalvi’s play on Gandhiji’s relationship with his son, and directed by Sujan Mukherjee. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
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Hypokrites’ 16 Pātā, at Gyan Manch
Mohit Chattopadhyaya’s play about two “madmen” in an asylum, directed by Saikat Ghosh.
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Sayak’s Dharmabatar, at Girish
Sayak’s new play written by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay, inspired by a foreign film about the personal conflict between a retired judge and his son who defends criminals. Directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya.
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Santoshpur Anuchintan’s Birsa Ka Jungle, at Triguna Sen Auditorium
An attempt to make people aware of our ancestors’ fight to protect the historic Jamkopai forest of Chakradharpur in Jharkhand. The play, developed by dramatist-director Gaurav Das in response to
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Sayak’s Dharmabatar, at Academy
Premiere of Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play inspired by a foreign film about the personal conflict between a retired judge and his son who defends criminals. Directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya.
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Ichheymoto’s Henry Kothay?, at University Institute
Director Saurav Palodhi’s adaptation of Clifford Odets’s 1935 socialist classic, Waiting for Lefty, about the poverty of taxi drivers in the USA.
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Hajabarala’s Ekanayaker Sesh Rat, at Academy
Written and directed by Chandan Sen, Ekanāyaker Sesh Rāt depicts an imaginary strife-torn African nation where a military dictator took over but now faces a popular revolution.
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Kalyani Natyacharcha Kendra’s Meyeti, at Academy
Adapted from Ariel Dorfman’s internationally successful Death and the Maiden and directed by Kishore Sengupta.
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