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Nandipat’s Pet-i Case, at Academy
2024-01-29 18:30 - 20:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
Dario Fo’s political satire Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (1974) adapted into Bengali by Bismay Ray and directed by Bimal Chakrabarti.

Pancham Vaidic’s Ghare Baire, at Madhusudan
2024-01-30 18:00 - 21:00 | Madhusudan Mancha, Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700031, India
Dramatized from Tagore’s domestic-political novel and directed by Arpita Ghosh.

Nityanatya Sanstha's Lash, at Sisir
2024-01-31 18:30 - 20:00 | Sisir Mancha, 1/1 A J C Bose Road, Kolkata
Story dramatized and directed by Atanu.

Nandipat’s Ballabhpurer Rupkatha, at Academy
2024-02-03 18:30 - 20:30 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
Badal Sircar’s mysterious comedy directed by Prokash Bhattacharya.

Beadon Street Subham’s Ami Pluto, at Madhusudan
2024-02-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Madhusudan Mancha, Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700031, India
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: ★★★★

Hypokrites’ Tabe Tai, at Gyan Manch
2024-02-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Gyan Manch, Gyan Manch, 11, Pretoria St, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
Based on Pirandello’s Right You Are (If You Think So), adapted by Pratik Datta and directed by Susnata Bhattacharya.

Ichheymoto's Birangana Kabya, at Academy
2024-02-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
Dramatized from Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s poem and directed by Turna Das.

Kolkata Playmakers’ Parabola Sir, at Madhusudan
2024-02-04 18:30 - 20:30 | Madhusudan Mancha, Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700031, India
Dramatized from Narayan Sanyal’s story by Tirthankar Chanda, about an idealistic teacher. Directed by Ram Mukhopadhyay.

Necropolis, at Uttam Mancha
2024-02-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Uttam Mancha, Manoharpukur Road, Kolkata
A bilingual satire (Bengali and English) and dire commentary on love and surveillance in a dystopian world. Written and directed by Debopriya Bhattacharya, Necropolis transcends the bounds of traditional storytelling.

Prachya’s Quarantine, at Academy
2024-02-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
Adapted into Bengali and on the Indo-Bangladeshi border from Arthur Miller’s classic A View from the Bridge, about illegal migrants, by Kaberi Basu and directed by Buddhadeb Das.

Angik's Binodini Opera, at Academy
2024-02-06 18:30 - 20:30 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
Biographical drama on Nati Binodini co-written by Abanti Chakraborty and Sibashis Bandyopadhyay, and directed by Abanti Chakraborty.

Rangroop’s Manmayi Girls School, at Academy
2024-02-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
The highly popular 1932 play written by Rabindranath Maitra, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay.
Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.

Chetana’s Marich Sambad, at Academy
2024-02-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
Chetana’s classic production, written and directed by Arun Mukhopadhyay.

Johnny Got His Gun (from Finland), at KCC
2024-02-10 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-02-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Kolkata Centre for Creativity, Anandapur, E M Bypass, Kolkata
Asian premiere of this one-man Finnish production based on Dalton Trumbo’s banned antiwar American novel of the same name published in 1939. Directed by Essi Rossi from Helsinki and well-received at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Chetana’s Mahatma Banam Gandhi, at Academy
2024-02-11 10:00 - 13:00 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
Translated by Arun Mukherjee from Ajit Dalvi’s play on Gandhiji’s relationship with his son, and directed by Sujan Mukherjee. Recommended: ★★★★

Dwitiya Satta’s Na Tor Janya, at Rabindra Sadan
2024-02-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Rabindra Sadan, Cathedral Road, Kolkata, 700016
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.

Santoshpur Anuchintan's Ghar, at Madhusudan
2024-02-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Madhusudan Mancha, Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700031, India
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 Sahiban, the foreground occupied by two other star-crossed romances, one of a Muslim girl who liked dancing with her male Sikh musician friend, and the other of homosexual love between an upper-class youth and an artisan.

Nandipat’s Pet-i Case, at Minerva
2024-02-16 18:30 - 20:30 | Minerva Theatre, Utpal Dutt Sarani (Beadon Street), Kolkata

Theatre Workshop’s Great Bengal Theatre, at Girish
2024-02-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Girish Mancha, Bagbazar
Dramatist-director Sumitro Bandyopadhyay’s fictionalized depiction of Bengali professional theatre’s nationalistic role at the time of the Partition.

Prachya’s Day Amadero, at University Institute
2024-02-18 17:30 - 19:30 | University Institute, College Street, Kolkata, 700073, India
Dramatized by Sumantra Chattopadhyay from Abby Mann’s Judgment at Nuremberg about the Nazi trials and directed by Biplab Bandyopadhyay.

Sansriti’s Kothakar Charitra Kothay Rekhechha, at Academy
2024-02-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
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.

Chakdah Natyajan’s Barricade, at Academy
2024-02-20 18:00 - 20:30 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
Revival of Utpal Dutt’s Barricade, about the Nazis’ strategies of establishing fascism democratically, directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.

Sansriti’s Khokkas, at Academy
2024-02-21 18:30 - 20:30 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
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.

Sansriti’s Sher Afgan, at Academy
2024-02-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
Ajitesh Bandopadhyay’s adaptation of Pirandello’s metatheatrical classic, Henry IV, directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay.
Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.

Sansriti's Ekdin Mandire Jaoyar Pathe, at Academy
2024-02-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
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 from there.

Dastangoi (Delhi)'s Dastan-E-Karn-Az Mahabharata, at KCC
2024-02-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Kolkata Centre for Creativity, Anandapur, E M Bypass, Kolkata
Mahmood Farooqui, who has revived the medieval storytelling tradition of Dastangoi and performed in Kolkata twice before, explores Karna’s life from the Mahabharata, in a masterful blend of Sanskrit, Urdu, Hindi, Farsi and Arabic.

Sansriti’s Hayabadan, at Academy
2024-02-24 18:30 - 20:30 | Academy of Fine Arts, 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700071, India
Translated by Sankha Ghosh from Girish Karnad’s classic folk-based play Hayavadana, and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay.

Sayak’s Atmajan, at Madhusudan
2024-02-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Madhusudan Mancha, Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700031, India
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.

Jadavpur Ramyani’s Haraner Natjamai, at Girish
2024-02-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Girish Mancha, Bagbazar
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 killed his son.
