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An original play written by Rakesh Ghosh and directed by Santanu Das, on Girish Ghosh’s historic production of Chaitanya Lila in which Nati Binodini stunned audiences with her male impersonation, while Sri Ramakrishna nurtured Radha’s feminine bhava in himself independently and blessed Binodini after watching her performance. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review. |
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Written by Shib Mukhopadhyay as his second dramatization of the epic, this time concentrating on the Udyoga Parva. Directed by Arna Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
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Premiere of Vinay Sharma's new play directed by him. Three episodes from different times linked by doublespeak around enforced silences: a professor faces an inquiry; a warlord declares himself God's messenger; an activist faces the warlord's wrath. |
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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 Bhattacharya. |
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Premiere of dramatist-director Rakesh Ghosh's new play about the forgotten comedian and female impersonator of the Bengali commercial stage, Amritalal Mukherjee (1854-1890). |
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Rangroop marks the birth centenary of Badal Sircar with a revival of his perennial early comedy about wish fulfilment. Directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay.
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Revival of Sohan Bandopadhyay’s Bengali dramatization from 2010 of Charlie Fish’s short story “The Man Who Married Himself”, about a man who does just that. |
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Revival of Ajitesh Bandopadhyay’s drama about the crisis of identity and relevance of a Jatra artiste. Directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay. |
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A blind and wheelchair-bound youth, highly intelligent, wants to know about light from his physicist father. Written and directed by Suman Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review. |
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The old production on "discovering love in the autumn of life" dramatized from Twinkle Khanna's story and directed by Lillete Dubey. Read my review. |
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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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Ujjwal Chattopadhyay's play based on the making of Chekhov’s classic The Seagull, recreating the work of the Moscow Art Theatre, its director Stanislavski and lead actress Olga Knipper (Chekhov’s wife). Directed by Tapanjyoti.
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Vinay Sharma’s new play directed by him. Three episodes from different times linked by doublespeak around enforced silences: a professor faces an inquiry; a warlord declares himself God’s messenger; an activist faces the warlord’s wrath. |
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Sudrak’s so-called “uneducated” satire on education written and directed by Debasis Majumdar. Read my review. |
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Hara Bhattacharya’s play, directed by Kamalesh Chakrabarti, about a coach who fought against corruption in his professional capacity in the sports world and his discovery of an underprivileged girl as a promising wrestler.
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Inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, this play written and directed by Yadavan Chandran explores themes of memory, desire and the human connection to space through a blend of storytelling, movement and music. It features Mallika Sarabhai and a cast of dancers and actors, including Penelope Deen, Lucrezia Maniscotti and Teertha Bhatt. Inaugural production in […] |
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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 and passionate lover of art. It traces his journey towards a stable career in cinema after marrying his muse, Surama, and his time in Bombay […] |
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Utpal Dutt’s classic play, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
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A puppet-theatre play reinterpreting the Thousand and One Nights through shadow puppetry, masks, live music and dialogue, exploring power, isolation and human vulnerability with a focus on Scheherazade's survival and defiance. Devised by Anurupa Roy. Third production in Sanskriti Sagar's Sabhagar Theatre Festival. |
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A Hindi drama written and directed by Abhishek Majumdar exploring a father-son dynamic, inspired by Anand's novel Vyasam Vigneswaram and Borges' essay "Blindness", focusing on a rite of passage, caste-based injustices and the passing of knowledge. Spotlighting actors who perform as characters from the Mahabharata, the play raises philosophical questions about the value of life, […] |
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Mahesh Elkunchwar's play translated in English, in which an ageing, much admired, charismatic writer dictates his autobiography to a bright but irreverent researcher and, in the process, talks about a controversial book on his love-life, which he had published earlier, where he spoke about his contemporaries, his troubled 30-year-old relationship with his wife and his brief […] |
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Adapted into Bengali by Soumitra Chatterjee from Murray Schisgal’s The Typists, and directed by Poulomi Chatterjee. Two stenographers in an office become friends over time and grow old together.
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A retelling of the life of Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan from the humble town of Kumbakonam to the hallowed halls of Cambridge. The dramatis personae include devout and determined mother, Kamallatammal, who introduced him to the world of classical Indian mathematics; his young wife Janaki, whose loneliness, sacrifices and silent suffering form a backdrop to his […] |
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Ganakrishti's new production, adapted from Dario Fo's early farce The Virtuous Burglar and directed by Amitava Dutta.
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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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Chetana’s classic production, adapted from Lu Xun’s The True Story of Ah Q and directed by Arun Mukhopadhyay.
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Revival of dramatist-director Loknath Bandyopadhyay’s farce, adapted from Peter Shaffer’s hit Black Comedy (1965). One of the funniest productions you can presently view; we cannot reveal more! Recommended: ★★★★ |
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A musical within a play based on Bharatchandra Ray’s Bidyasundar Palagan, on the love of Bidya and Sundar. Directed by Sujan Mukhopadhyay and winner of two Supporting Actor awards at META 2024. Read my review.
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About abuse of power, peer pressure, rape and redefinition of the victim role. Inspired by interviews conducted with youth from Norway and Malaysia, and stories from the four performers themselves. Directed by Elisabet Topp and written by Karen Houge, David Tann and Bella Rahim. |
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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 and passionate lover of art. It traces his journey towards a stable career in cinema after marrying his muse, Surama, and his time in Bombay […]
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Rangroop marks the birth centenary of Badal Sircar with a revival of his perennial early comedy about wish fulfilment. Directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay.
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Indianized by Jagannath Guha from Giuseppe Tornatore’s influential film A Pure Formality, about an inspector interrogating a famous author. Directed by Anish Ghosh. |
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An intimate shared experience where Karen Houge explores trust through personal stories and playful audience interaction. In an era of war and political division, it offers a fresh and urgent perspective on how trust is built, broken and repaired. It is a conversation about the world we live in and the future of humanity. Do […] |
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Evocative Dastangoi storytelling performance by Mahmood Farooqui and Poonam Girdhani, adapting Geetanjali Shree’s novel Ret Samadhi set against the haunting echoes of Partition. It follows an elderly woman’s journey from grief to self-discovery after her husband’s death, in the search for a long-lost home, awakening questions of identity, memory and renewal. Inaugural performance of Ami […]
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A collaborative musical with over 100 students taking the stage, from Birla High, Mahadevi Birla World Academy, Sri Sri Academy, Sushila Birla Girls' and BSS schools. |
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An imagined courtroom drama that explores the genius and faith, trials and triumphs, wit and wisdom, and life and works of Abdus Salam, Pakistani Nobel Prize-winner in Physics for contributing to unifying the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces. His vision was inspired by the surahs of the Quran which spoke to him of a deep […]
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Minimal yet immersive, Maas strips theatre down to its essentials—body, memory, voice. Through her raw and deeply physical solo performance style, Jyoti Dogra explores the fragile yet unbreakable ties between memory, identity and the body as a vessel of both trauma and resilience. Personal narratives intermingle with cultural conditioning, as the play unravels the discomfort […] |
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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 scientist pursues his thirst for knowledge, Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
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Hilarious, surreal and deeply unsettling, Piyakkad explores the fragile line between intoxication and liberation. A man finds truth, illusion and escape through alcohol, blurring the boundary between reality and imagination. With Makarand Deshpande’s trademark mix of absurdist humour, lyrical monologues and raw emotional intensity, his one-man play becomes both a mirror of loneliness and a […]
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Adapted from Dario Fo’s early farce The Virtuous Burglar and directed by Amitava Dutta. The thief's plans for a simple robbery are immediately complicated when he unexpectedly faces two sets of cheating partners. Forced to act as a go-between and peacemaker, he attempts to keep the multiple affairs a secret. |
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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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Newly dramatized in Bengali from Howard Fast’s novel and directed by Rokeya Ray and Malay Ray. Recommended. Read review here.
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Biography of the pioneer women's educationist and activist, written and directed by Sushama Deshpande, dramatized by Manjiri Bhuskute and translated into English by Shanta Gokhale. A solo performance of "theatre journalism" by Nandita Patkar. |
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An anthology of three plays directed by Seema Bhargava Pahwa. The medley brings to life three timeless Hindi short stories by Premchand, Mannu Bhandari and Bhisham Sahni, exploring the colourful mosaic of human emotions, tracing the ebbs and flows of human connection woven with womanhood, memory and meaning. Part of the Ami Arts Festival.
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The first segment features a colourful presentation of a dozen diverse folk forms from Medinipur. The second part, Aranya Purush, is a theatre production deeply inspired by folk traditions. This play combines dance, music and drama to portray the profound relationship between humanity and nature, exploring themes of identity, survival and harmony with the natural […]
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A darkly comic thriller adapted into Hindi from Anthony Shaffer’s celebrated two-hander Sleuth, directed by Shubhrajyoti Barat. Part of the Ami Arts Festival. |
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Written by Shib Mukhopadhyay as his second dramatization of the epic, this time concentrating on the Udyoga Parva. Directed by Arna Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
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Utpal Dutt’s classic play, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
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A collection of theatre songs delivered and linked by Datt and his accompanists. The songs formed part of different productions from his early days at National School of Drama to his career as actor, writer, director and composer. The performance features perfectly-timed humour, satire and shared anecdotes from his experiences. Part of Ami Arts Festival. |
