Adapted from Somerset Maugham’s play on euthanasia, The Sacred Flame, by Bhaskar Lahiri and directed by Kishore Sengupta.
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 location. Directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★
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.
Dramatized by Sumantra Chattopadhyay from Abby Mann’s Judgment at Nuremberg about the Nazi trials and directed by Biplab Bandyopadhyay.
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 location. Directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★
Hindustani adaptation by a new local group of Rajiv Joseph’s dark drama that won the Obie award for best new American play in 2016. Two guards at the newly built Taj Mahal discuss perfection, duty, obedience and rebellion in a blend of humour, brutality and philosophical questions about beauty and power.
A young researcher visits an old, dilapidated hall in north Kolkata, whose octogenarian owner, initially hostile, gradually starts narrating his story and the miraculous journey of a young Gomira dancer from a small village in Dinajpur to the world of Kolkata theatre. The researcher realizes the man’s unparalleled love for theatre and this auditorium. Written […]
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.
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.
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.
