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.
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: ★★★★
Biographical drama on Nati Binodini co-written by Abanti Chakraborty and Sibashis Bandyopadhyay, and directed by Abanti Chakraborty.
The first play in Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre. Adapted from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Pala style by Bangladeshi director Sayik Siddiquee.
Written and directed by Debashis. An imaginative account of the conflict between Nadir Shah and Muhammad Shah. Highly recommended: ★★★★★ Read my review.
From Howard Fast’s novel about the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, dramatized and directed by Kaushik Chattopadhyay. The second evening of Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre.
The record-breaking comedy that has had an uninterrupted run since 1972, with over 1200 performances. Written and directed by the late Saroj Ray for his own group Natasena.
The third evening of Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre. Arindam Mukherjee's play directed by Tathagata Chaudhuri.
Written by Amitabha Chakrabarti, directed by Ranjan Roy. Recommended viewing: ★★★★ Read my review. Fourth evening of Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre.
Premiere of director Saurav Palodhi's adaptation of Clifford Odets's 1935 socialist classic, Waiting for Lefty, about the poverty of taxi drivers in the USA.
