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Sudrak's new, so-called "uneducated" play directed by Debasis Majumdar.
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Mohit Chattopadhyaya's 1964 play loosely based on D.H. Lawrence's short story “The Rocking-horse Winner”, guest-directed by Saurav Palodhi, about a man’s visions of horses that win at the races, which come true, and how his greedy family pressures him to continue. |
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An ebullient Bengali pastiche of Hamlet. 4th Bell had debuted in 2011 with this play, deliberately and delectably perverting Shakespeare's tragedy into a festive comedy written and directed by Aniruddha Dasgupta. Recommended: ★★★★
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Acclaimed Polish dramatist Slawomir Mrozek’s dark political satire on power titled Police, adapted and directed by Arpita Ghosh.
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Dramatist-director Debasish’s new play about an old building facing demolition, whose residents face eviction, and whose inhabitants include non-humans too. Recommended: ★★★★ |
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Inspired by Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone, written by Anirban Sen and directed by Anish Ghosh. |
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Biographical drama on Nati Binodini co-written by Abanti Chakraborty and Sibashis Bandyopadhyay, and directed by Abanti Chakraborty. |
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Dramatist-director Sohan Bandopadhyay’s ghostly comedy set in a dilapidated north Kolkata hall about to be demolished to make way for a mall. Resident spooks protest against the reigning politician’s corruption. Recommended: ★★★★ |
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From Howard Fast’s novel about the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, dramatized and directed by Kaushik Chattopadhyay. |
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Acclaimed Polish dramatist Slawomir Mrozek’s dark political satire on power titled Police, adapted and directed by Arpita Ghosh.
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A new dramatization of Manto’s stories, scripted and directed by Anubha Fatehpuria. They question very basic aspects of humanity — friendship, independence, slavery, belonging, longing, obscenity, civilization, culture — and if we have progressed at all from when he last held a mirror to his times. |
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Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” play directed by Debasis Majumdar.
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From Howard Fast’s novel Silas Timberman, dramatized and directed by Kaushik Chattopadhyay. Highly recommended: ★★★★★. Read my review.
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Dramatized from Ismat Chughtai’s stories and directed by Anubha Fatehpuria. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review. |
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Dramatized from Ismat Chughtai’s stories and directed by Anubha Fatehpuria. Two shows, at 4 and 7 pm. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
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An exploration of Bertolt Brecht's life, ideas and politics, reflecting the chaos and decay he experienced. Directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay.
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Written by Sounava Bose based on Narayan Sanyal’s Ami Netaji-ke Dekhechhi about Netaji and the INA's Rani of Jhansi regiment in Burma, and directed by Tirthankar Chattopadhyay. |
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Written and directed by Debashis. An imaginative account of the conflict between Nadir Shah and Muhammad Shah. Highly recommended: ★★★★★ Read my review. |
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The highly popular 1932 play written by Rabindranath Maitra, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.
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Revival of two plays in English by Bangalore Little Theatre: Shailesh Parekh's The Prophet and the Poet, on the exchanges between Tagore and Gandhi, and Robi's Garden, some of Tagore's comic skits for children. Directed by Vijay Padaki.
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Dramatized from Narayan Sanyal’s novel by Tirthankar Chanda, about an idealistic teacher. Directed by Ram Mukhopadhyay. |
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Adapted from Ariel Dorfman’s internationally successful Death and the Maiden and directed by Kishore Sengupta.
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Akhtarujjaman Iliyas’s novel dramatized by Samir Dasgupta and directed by Goutam Halder in 1997, revived by Kishore Sengupta.
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A satirical play in Hindi by Sharad Joshi adapting the well-known parable of the blind men and an elephant into a depiction of contemporary politics, societal apathy and inaction. Directed by Vinay Sharma. |
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Story by Sunil Gangopadhyay about a fictional 19th-century British officer in Bengal, dramatized by Sounava Basu and directed by Ashoke Chattopadhyay. |
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An original Bengali play on how life begins after retirement. Written by Soumya Biswas and directed by Samir Biswas. |
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Dramatized from Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s poem about classical heroines and directed by Turna Das. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here. |
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The record-breaking comedy that has had an uninterrupted run since 1972, with over 1200 performances. Written and directed by the late Saroj Ray for his own group Natasena.
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Debasish Ray's biodrama about Panchanan Karmakar, the first creator of Bengali moveable typeface in the 18th century, based on Rajat Chakrabarti's novel Panchananer Haraph. |
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Based on Debes Roy’s Bengali rendering of Shakespeare’s classic and Jan Otcenasek’s Romeo and Juliet in Darkness. Directed by Abanti Chakraborty. |
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Written and directed by Suman Sengupta, a portrayal of the dilemma of an accomplished commercial artist who sells out to the ruthless and competitive contemporary ratrace.
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Aneek’s Bukjhim ek Bhālobāsā, a tragic love story written by Syed Shamsul Haque, dramatized and directed by Sraman Chatterjee. Read my review here.
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Dramatist-director Debasish’s new play about an old building facing demolition, whose residents face eviction, and whose inhabitants include non-humans too. Recommended: ★★★★ |
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Inspired by Steve Metzger’s awardwinning children’s book Pluto Visits Earth!, the story of a tiny planet but also a beautiful wish that grants love, rejoices in friendship and finds hope in remembering who we actually are. Dramatized by Kallol Lahiri and Alekhya Ghosh, set in Kolkata, and directed by Anamitra Khan. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my […]
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Biographical drama on Nati Binodini co-written by Abanti Chakraborty and Sibashis Bandyopadhyay, and directed by Abanti Chakraborty. |