Sansriti’s Hayabadan, at Academy
Translated by Sankha Ghosh from Girish Karnad’s classic folk-based play Hayavadana, and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay.
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Sansriti’s Ekdin Mandire Jaoyar Pathe, at Academy
Translated from Satish Alekar’s Marathi play Ek Divas Mathakade and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. A young man embarks on a trip to a temple and meets an old man returning
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Jadavpur Ramyani’s Haraner Natjamai, at Girish
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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Sayak’s Atmajan, at Madhusudan
Directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya and written by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay, about a man who dutifully takes care of his ailing father but in doing so risks alienating his wife.
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Sansriti’s Sher Afgan, at Academy
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay’s adaptation of Pirandello’s metatheatrical classic, Henry IV, directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
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Sansriti’s Khokkas, at Academy
Adapted from Evgeny Schwartz’s satirical Russian play The Dragon (1944) by Arpita Ghosh and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. A village terrorized by a dragon finds an unlikely saviour.
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Chakdah Natyajan’s Barricade, at Academy
Revival of Utpal Dutt’s Barricade, about the Nazis’ strategies of establishing fascism democratically, directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
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Sansriti’s Kothakar Charitra Kothay Rekhechha, at Academy
Translated from Pirandello’s metatheatrical classic Six Characters in Search of an Author by Rudraprasad Sengupta and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.
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Prachya’s Day Amadero, at University Institute
Dramatized by Sumantra Chattopadhyay from Abby Mann’s Judgment at Nuremberg about the Nazi trials and directed by Biplab Bandyopadhyay.
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Theatre Workshop’s Great Bengal Theatre, at Girish
Dramatist-director Sumitro Bandyopadhyay’s fictionalized depiction of Bengali professional theatre’s nationalistic role at the time of the Partition.
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Nandipat’s Pet-i Case, at Minerva
Dario Fo’s political satire Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (1974) adapted into Bengali by Bismay Ray and directed by Bimal Chakrabarti.
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Santoshpur Anuchintan’s Ghar, at Madhusudan
An original play in Hindustani and Punjabi. Dramatist-director Gaurav Das weaves a sophisticated narrative with three main strands. In the background we view the legendary Punjabi qissā of Mirza and
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