Over 130 performances across 13 cities, "the first fully female superhit". A bittersweet comedy about daughters, girlfriends, mothers, sisters, wives, at a big fat Delhi wedding. Merely hours before they need to put up their rehearsed item number, five bridesmaids catch up, gossip, eat, drink and bitch about their identical outfits. But that’s not the […]
Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play about Chandrabati, the 16th-century poet who composed the first Bangla Ramayan from the perspective of Sita, as well as parts of the Maimansingha Gitika. Directed by Prokash Bhattacharya.
Over 130 performances across 13 cities, “the first fully female superhit”. A bittersweet comedy about daughters, girlfriends, mothers, sisters, wives, at a big fat Delhi wedding. Merely hours before they need to put up their rehearsed item number, five bridesmaids catch up, gossip, eat, drink and bitch about their identical outfits. But that’s not the […]
The sequel to the popular Dekh Behen. The gang reunites at the tumultuous, alcohol-free wedding of Kanupriya. Written by Dilshad Edibam and Tahira Nath, and directed by Shikha Talsania and Prerna Chawla, it follows the bridesmaids (older, but not necessarily wiser) handling orthodox in-laws and crazy drama. Two performances, at 5 and 8 pm.
Adapted from Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot and directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.
The sequel to the popular Dekh Behen. The gang reunites at the tumultuous, alcohol-free wedding of Kanupriya. Written by Dilshad Edibam and Tahira Nath, and directed by Shikha Talsania and Prerna Chawla, it follows the bridesmaids (older, but not necessarily wiser) handling orthodox in-laws and crazy drama. Two performances, at 5 and 8 pm.
One of Bohurupee's best productions from the 1990s, written by Manoj Mitra, directed by Kumar Roy (on his birth centenary) and now revived by Sanjay Banerjee. Premiere of the revival. Read my review of the original.
Rangroop marks the birth centenary of Badal Sircar with a revival of his perennial early comedy about wish fulfilment. Directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay.
Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play about Chandrabati, the 16th-century poet who composed the first Bangla Ramayan from the perspective of Sita, as well as parts of the Maimansingha Gitika. Directed by Prokash Bhattacharya.
Premiere of Sayak's new production, written by Arijit Biswas, directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya. An old party wholetimer in a village guards a ruined building that once was his local party office. Vested interests want him evicted to construct a community centre-cum-supermart. The story of thousands of grassroots workers who gave their all for an ideology […]
