Nirbak’s Saodagarer Nauka, at Girish
Girish Mancha BagbazarRevival of Ajitesh Bandopadhyay’s drama about the crisis of identity and relevance of a Jatra artiste. Directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.
Revival of Ajitesh Bandopadhyay’s drama about the crisis of identity and relevance of a Jatra artiste. Directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.
Director Saurav Palodhi’s adaptation of Clifford Odets’s 1935 socialist classic, Waiting for Lefty, about the poverty of taxi drivers in the USA.
Adapted from Slovenian dramatist Evald Flisar’s What about Leonardo, set in a neurological institute, and directed by Amitava Dutta.
Academy of Fine Arts Workers Union hosts all-night theatre supporting #WeWantJustice. Participating directors include Sima Mukhopadhyay, Poulomi Chatterjee, Srabanti Bhattacharya, Turna Das, Sanjita and Nancy.
Adapted from Pirandello’s Right You Are If You Think So and directed by Arpita Ghosh. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
An ebullient Bengali pastiche of Hamlet. 4th Bell had debuted in 2011 with this play, deliberately and delectably perverting Shakespeare’s tragedy into a festive comedy written and directed by Aniruddha Dasgupta. Recommended: ★★★★
Story by Sunil Gangopadhyay about a fictional 19th-century British officer in Bengal, dramatized by Sounava Basu and directed by Ashoke Chattopadhyay.
Rangroop has revived this searing play because of last month's tragedy in Kolkata. Dramatized by Mainak Sengupta, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.
Dario Fo’s political satire Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (1974) adapted into Bengali by Bismoy Roy and directed by Bimal Chakraborty.
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.