Rangapat’s Medea, at Academy
Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaEuripides’ classic tragedy in Bengali directed by Tapanjyoti Das. Recommended viewing: ★★★★ Read my review here.
Euripides’ classic tragedy in Bengali directed by Tapanjyoti Das. Recommended viewing: ★★★★ Read my review here.
Story by Sunil Gangopadhyay about a fictional 19th-century British officer in Bengal, dramatized by Sounava Basu and directed by Ashoke Chattopadhyay.
Adapted from Slovenian dramatist Evald Flisar’s What about Leonardo, set in a neurological institute, and directed by Amitava Dutta.
The highly popular 1932 play written by Rabindranath Maitra, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.
An Indianized adaptation of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” by Anirban Sen, directed by Suvojit Bandopadhyay.
Based on a story by Binod Ghoshal, dramatized and directed by Rakesh Ghosh.
An ebullient Bengali pastiche of Hamlet. 4th Bell had debuted in 2011 with Hapi-D, deliberately and delectably perverting the Danish tragedy into a festive comedy written and directed by Aniruddha Dasgupta. Recommended: ★★★★
A musical within a play based on Bharatchandra Ray's Bidyasundar Palagan, on the love of Bidya and Sundar. Directed by Sujan Mukhopadhyay and winner of two Supporting Actor awards at META 2024.
Chandan Sen rediscovers and adapts Pirandello's nearly-forgotten All for the Best, written in 1920, the year before the classic Six Characters in Search of an Author. Directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya.
Dramatist-director Sohan Bandopadhyay’s ghostly comedy set in a dilapidated north Kolkata hall about to be demolished to make way for a mall. Resident spooks protest against the reigning politician’s corruption.