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 […]
Manik Bandyopadhyay’s classic novel dramatized and directed by Parthapratim Deb.
Dramatist-director Debasish’s biodrama about Panchanan Karmakar, the first creator of Bengali moveable typeface in the 18th century, based on Rajat Chakraborti’s novel Panchananer Haraph. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
One of the more unusual treatments of Nati Binodini’s llife: a play within a play on her last years and her friendship with Tara Sundari, promising revelations that have not […]
British dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Winter Hill, translated and set in Bengal by Tirthankar Chanda, about a group of women discussing the construction of a luxury hotel in a remote rural […]
Adapted into Urdu by S. M. Azhar Alam from The Sins of the Mother by American playwright Tony Devaney Morinelli. A one-act all-women psychological family drama that examines the destructive […]
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.
