An attempt to make people aware of our ancestors' fight to protect the historic Jamkopai forest of Chakradharpur in Jharkhand. The play, developed by dramatist-director Gaurav Das in response to the climate change that threatens our very existence, awakens us to act and protect Mother Nature for future generations. The performers are children and young adults […]
Translated by Arun Mukherjee from Ajit Dalvi’s play on Gandhiji’s relationship with his son, and directed by Sujan Mukherjee. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
Written by Swapnamoy Chakraborty and directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. An ordinary man’s rise to money, fame and power lead him astray from his earlier humanity.
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.
A blind and wheelchair-bound youth, highly intelligent, wants to know about light from his physicist father. Written and directed by Suman Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★
Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” satire on education directed by Debasis Majumdar.
Dramatist-director Debasish’s new play about an old building facing demolition, whose residents face eviction, and whose inhabitants include non-humans too. Recommended: ★★★★
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.
Final performance of Chetana’s classic production Jagannath, adapted from Lu Xun’s The True Story of Ah Q and directed by Arun Mukhopadhyay.
Written and directed by Suman Sengupta, a portrayal of the dilemma of an accomplished commercial artist who sells out to the ruthless and competitive contemporary ratrace.
