Sutrapat’s Elating Belating Sai Lo, at Tripti Mitra
Tripti Mitra Natyagriha Natya Akademi, Nandan complex, KolkataIntimate theatre directed by Jayoti Bose, part of the 24th Natyamela.
Intimate theatre directed by Jayoti Bose, part of the 24th Natyamela.
Ratan Kumar Das's new play about a lonely man whose only attachments left are his daughter and his home. Everything has changed around him: relationships and the times. Directed by Biplab Bandyopadhyay.
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 ebullient Bengali pastiche of Hamlet. 4th Bell debuted in 2011 with this play, deliberately and delectably perverting Shakespeare’s tragedy into a festive comedy written and directed by Aniruddha Dasgupta. Recommended: ★★★★. Free admission as part of the 24th Natyamela.
Adishakti comes to Kolkata after many years with their new production in English. Questions of consent, agency and approval breathe new life into Urmila, Lakshmana's wife. Part of Pickle Factory's month-long Season 5.
Acclaimed Polish dramatist Slawomir Mrozek’s dark political satire on power titled Police, adapted and directed by Arpita Ghosh. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
The highly popular 1932 play written by Rabindranath Maitra, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.
Written and directed by Debashis. Based on the freedom fighters arrested in the Alipore Bomb Case of 1908. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review. Free admission as part of the 24th Natyamela.
Inspired by Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone, written by Anirban Sen and directed by Anish Ghosh. Free admission as part of the 24th Natyamela.
Rangapat’s latest production, based by dramatist Ujjwal Chattopadhyay on the making of Chekhov’s classic The Seagull, recreating the work of the Moscow Art Theatre, its director Stanislavski and lead actress Olga Knipper (Chekhov's wife). Directed by Tapanjyoti.