Theatre Workshop’s Gadaibabu Aschhen, at Academy
Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaAdapted from Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot and directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.
Adapted from Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot and directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.
An actor passes himself off as an affordable alternative to the famous Jatra star Shantigopal and even plagiarizes the latter's famous scripts. Written by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay and directed by Sudipta Datta.
Padatik’s new play translated and dramatized from Annie Zaidi’s Love Stories #1 to 14 by Rakesh Tripathi and directed by Anubha Fatehpuria. The unusual love-lives of three characters from three of Zaidi’s stories that bring out the obliqueness of love and possibly how our cities may reside within us.
The poet Shakti Chattopadhyay’s life, thought and times dramatized by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay and directed by Debasish.
Based on Pinter's early one-act two-hander, The Dumb Waiter, adapted into Bengali by Soumit Deb.
Debasis Majumder‘s new play on the fragility of human relationships and the pain of breaking them. It highlights three major forms of separation: death, which is a natural consequence to be accepted without anger; physical distancing, which becomes a daily habit over time; and emotional separation, which occurs through conflict, betrayal or coercion and creates […]
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.
Director Debesh Chattopadhyay’s faithful interpretation of Buddhadeva Bose’s verse drama on Karna’s choice before the war begins.
Adapted into Urdu by S. M. Azhar Alam from The Sins of the Mother by American playwright Tony Devaney Morinelli. It is a one-act all-women psychological family drama that examines the destructive legacy of alcoholism, emotional abuse and trauma through the lives of three generations of women. Directed by Uma Jhunjhunwala.
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, his time in Bombay before […]