Mukhomukhi’s Tiner Taloyar, at Tapan
Tapan Theatre KalighatUtpal Dutt’s classic play, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★
Utpal Dutt’s classic play, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★
Bhisham Sahni's play translated and directed by Swatilekha Sengupta.
Inspired by Mahasweta Devi's "Draupadi" and other stories. Scripted and directed by Gargi Mukherjee and Golam Sarwar Harun.
A psychiatrist is visited by a young man who has severe hallucinations that connect him to Van Gogh and his paintings, questioning his own reality and that of his surroundings, and longing to visit the alternate reality in the paintings. Excerpts from Van Gogh's life show nearly parallel crises. Dramatized from Srijato’s novel and directed […]
Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play inspired by a foreign film about the personal conflict between a retired judge and his son who defends criminals. Directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya.
Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” satire on education written and directed by Debasis Majumdar. Read my review.
Revival of their old production, written and directed by Chandan Sen, about the plight of lonely senior citizens.
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: ★★★★ Read my […]
Shakespeare’s classic directed by Koushik Sen in a Bengali translation by Chaiti Mitra. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.
Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play about the triangle between Tappa pioneer Nidhu-babu, his royal patron-friend Mahananda Ray, and the latter’s mistress Srimati who became Nidhu-babu’s devoted disciple. Directed by Soumitra Mitra.