Padatik’s Beparwah Manto, at Padatik
Padatik Little Theatre 6/7 A J C Bose Road, KolkataDirector Anubha Fatehpuria's dramatization of Manto's life and writings. Read my review.
Director Anubha Fatehpuria's dramatization of Manto's life and writings. Read my review.
An original play written by Rakesh Ghosh and directed by Santanu Das, on Girish Ghosh’s historic production of Chaitanya Lila in which Nati Binodini stunned audiences with her male impersonation, […]
Written by Shib Mukhopadhyay as his second dramatization of the epic, this time concentrating on the Udyoga Parva. Directed by Arna Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
Premiere of Vinay Sharma's new play directed by him. Three episodes from different times linked by doublespeak around enforced silences: a professor faces an inquiry; a warlord declares himself God's […]
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 […]
Premiere of dramatist-director Rakesh Ghosh's new play about the forgotten comedian and female impersonator of the Bengali commercial stage, Amritalal Mukherjee (1854-1890).
Rangroop marks the birth centenary of Badal Sircar with a revival of his perennial early comedy about wish fulfilment. Directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay.
Revival of Sohan Bandopadhyay’s Bengali dramatization from 2010 of Charlie Fish’s short story “The Man Who Married Himself”, about a man who does just that.
Revival of Ajitesh Bandopadhyay’s drama about the crisis of identity and relevance of a Jatra artiste. Directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.
A blind and wheelchair-bound youth, highly intelligent, wants to know about light from his physicist father. Written and directed by Suman Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.