• Unicorn Actors Studio (Delhi)’s Antaral, at Gyan Manch

    Gyan Manch Gyan Manch, 11, Pretoria St, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Partap Sehgal's latest play directed by Gauri Dewal deals with the ever-changing nature of values through the story of an intelligent woman whose life has been shaped by tragedy. Part of Little Thespian’s Jashn-e-Azhar national theatre festival.

  • Sansriti’s Khokkas, at Academy

    Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Adapted from Evgeny Schwartz’s satirical Russian play The Dragon (1944) by Arpita Ghosh and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. A village terrorized by a dragon finds an unlikely saviour.

  • Sansriti’s Hayabadan, at Academy

    Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Translated by Sankha Ghosh from Girish Karnad’s classic folk-based play Hayavadana, and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay.

  • Jadavpur Ramyani’s Haraner Natjamai, at Tapan

    Tapan Theatre Kalighat

    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.

  • Mukhomukhi and Tritiyo Sutra’s Mephisto, at Kala Mandir

    Kala Mandir Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata

    Revival of their 2002 production. Based on Ariane Mnouchkine’s dramatization of Klaus Mann’s novel on the Nazi co-option of artists, translated and directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★

  • Anuragna (New Delhi)’s Tin Gumshuda Log, at Gyan Manch

    Gyan Manch Gyan Manch, 11, Pretoria St, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    A collage of three stories by Partap Sehgal. Ashraf Ali directs the independent narratives into a unified, thought-provoking exploration of life's existential crises. Part of Little Thespian's Jashn-e-Azhar national theatre festival.

  • Sanglap Kolkata’s Hulusthul, at Academy

    Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Dramatized from Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and directed by Debasish. A mysterious hawker sells seemingly useless things, but fruitful in the thirst for knowledge, which some people conspire to capture. Recommended: ★★★★

  • Kamla Shankar Dhanwanti Foundation (Delhi)’s Ramanujan, at Gyan Manch

    Gyan Manch Gyan Manch, 11, Pretoria St, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Partap Sehgal's play celebrates the life and achievements of Srinivasa Ramanujan, from a poor and modest clerk in Madras to a renowned mathematician at Cambridge, exploring the challenges he faced due to poor health, cultural differences and lack of formal education. Directed by Himanshu Himaniya. Part of Little Thespian's Jashn-e-Azhar national theatre festival.

  • Samukha (New Delhi)’s Bulleh Shah, at Gyan Manch

    Gyan Manch Gyan Manch, 11, Pretoria St, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Partap Sehgal's play about Bulleh Shah, descendant of Prophet Mohammad and belonging to the upper Pathan caste, whose family members opposed him becoming a disciple of the Sufi seer Shah Inayat, considered a lower caste, and did not even like him dancing and singing from street to street. Directed by Arvind Singh. Part of Little […]

  • Garia Krishti’s Kalpurush, at Tapan

    Tapan Theatre Kalighat

    Dramatized from Samares Mazumdar’s novel, the third in his Animesh quartet, focusing on the journey of Animesh’s son. Scripted and directed by Sitangshu Khatua.