aRANYA’s Trasadi, at KCC
Kolkata Centre for Creativity Anandapur, E M Bypass, KolkataA solo performance written and performed by Manav Kaul, about the grief that comes with losing one’s mother. Part of KCC’s AMI Arts Festival.
A solo performance written and performed by Manav Kaul, about the grief that comes with losing one’s mother. Part of KCC’s AMI Arts Festival.
Based on Pirandello’s Right You Are (If You Think So), adapted by Pratik Datta and directed by Susnata Bhattacharya.
A tragic love story written by Syed Shamsul Haque, dramatized and directed by Sraman Chatterjee. Read my review here.
Revival of their old production, written and directed by Chandan Sen, about the plight of lonely senior citizens.
Director Saurav Palodhi’s adaptation of Clifford Odets’s 1935 socialist classic, Waiting for Lefty, about the poverty of taxi drivers in the USA.
Revival of dramatist-director Loknath Bandyopadhyay’s farce, adapted from Peter Shaffer’s hit Black Comedy (1965). One of the funniest productions you can presently view; we cannot reveal more! Recommended: ★★★★
To mark Mrinal Sen's centenary, a play celebrating his cultural and political engagement. Written by Shibaditya Dasgupta, Sumanto Bandyopadhyay and Anal Pal; directed by Samudra Guha.
Dramatist-director Sohan Bandopadhyay’s ghostly comedy set in a dilapidated north Kolkata hall about to be demolished to make way for a mall. Resident spooks protest against the reigning politician’s corruption. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
Adapted from Evgeny Schwartz’s satirical Russian play The Dragon (1944) by Arpita Ghosh and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. A village terrorized by a dragon finds an unlikely saviour.
Revival of Renaissance’s Hindi production from the 1990s. Dramatized from Satinath Bhaduri’s satirical story by Partha Sarathi Upadhyay and directed by Bimal Chakraborty.