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 […]

Manik Bandyopadhyay’s classic novel dramatized and directed by Parthapratim Deb.

Dramatist-director Debasish’s biodrama about Panchanan Karmakar, the first creator of Bengali moveable typeface in the 18th century, based on Rajat Chakraborti’s novel Panchananer Haraph. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

One of the more unusual treatments of Nati Binodini’s llife: a play within a play on her last years and her friendship with Tara Sundari, promising revelations that have not […]

British dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Winter Hill, translated and set in Bengal by Tirthankar Chanda, about a group of women discussing the construction of a luxury hotel in a remote rural […]

Adapted into Urdu by S. M. Azhar Alam from The Sins of the Mother by American playwright Tony Devaney Morinelli. A one-act all-women psychological family drama that examines the destructive […]

Written and directed by Chandan Sen, Ekanāyaker Sesh Rāt depicts an imaginary strife-torn African nation where a military dictator took over but now faces a popular revolution.

What does it mean to leave a house, and what do we carry with us when we do? A striking contemporary Bengali play by Subhashis Gangopadhyay that explores identity, memory […]

Written and directed by Debashis. Based on the freedom fighters arrested in the Alipore Bomb Case of 1908. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

Shakespeare’s classic translated into Bengali by Chaiti Mitra and directed by Koushik Sen. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.