Pratikriti’s Padma Nadir Majhi, at Rabindra Sadan
Rabindra Sadan Cathedral Road, KolkataManik Bandyopadhyay’s classic novel dramatized and directed by Alok Deb in Pratikriti’s long-running production. Highly recommended: ★★★★★
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Belgharia Ruptapas’s Sanko, at Madhusudan
Madhusudan Mancha Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaRitwik Ghatak's long-forgotten but highly relevant drama that has a simplicity and warmth at a human level. The first half is set in Calcutta during a post-Partition riot and the […]
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Samstab’s Gaurer Kabach, at Academy
Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaShirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s magical story about Gaur, who loves to play the flute, and is loved by the ancient folk in his village, threatened by the arrival of a man who […]
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Sudrak’s Shikh ^kha Jatir Merudanda, at Girish
Girish Mancha BagbazarA so-called “uneducated” satire on education written and directed by Debasis Majumdar. Read my review.
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Anya Theatre’s Caretaker, at Gyan Manch
Gyan Manch Gyan Manch, 11, Pretoria St, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaHarold Pinter’s early drama translated and transplanted into Bengali and directed by Arindam Mukherjee. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
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Ichheymoto’s Je Janlagulor Akash Chhilo, at Academy
Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaFour childhood friends from the 1990s grow up and go different ways, passing through youthful romances, heated arguments and political movements, testifying to the times and documented by contemporanous hit […]
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Aneek’s Aksharik, at Academy
Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaDramatist-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.
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Samstab’s Uranta Tarader Chhaya, at Madhusudan
Madhusudan Mancha Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaWritten and directed by Debasish. An imaginative account of the conflict between Nadir Shah and Muhammad Shah. Highly recommended: ★★★★★ Read my review.
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Natyaranga’s Sei Ek Binodini, at Girish
Girish Mancha BagbazarOne 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 come […]
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Sandbox Collective (Bengaluru) and Santoshpur Anuchintan’s In Search of Goddess Sitala, at Tapan
Tapan Theatre KalighatA multimedia theatre performance that reflects on the lives of contemporary female impersonators in Sitala Jatra or Sitala Mangal, a rich and diverse but now endangered performatory ritual mostly found […]