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.
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 Bhattacharya.
A multimedia theatre performance that reflects on the lives of contemporary female impersonators in Sitala Jatra or Sitala Mangal, a rich and diverse but now endangered performatory ritual mostly found in rural West Bengal. Sitala (from sital, meaning cool; literally, the cool one), a non-Aryan deity, is the much-dreaded goddess or mother of diseases in […]
Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” satire on education written and directed by Debasis Majumdar. Read my review.
Revival of the old production. To quote from my review in 2015: "written by Summana Ahmed and Saif Hyder Hasan, and directed by the latter. It presented the relationship between Amrita Pritam and Sahir Ludhianvi, based on her autobiography. Perhaps because of the depth of the source text, and no doubt the poetic ore of […]
Performance by Guru Malay Kumar Sahu and his ensemble from Seraikela, Jharkhand.
A comedy about a divorcee juggling two lovers. Written and directed by Paritosh Painter.
A women's empowerment play in English written by Elina Dasgupta Dutta and directed by Sumit Lai Roy.
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.
Dedicated to all people who have found themselves between cities, between choices, between who they were and who they’re becoming, still searching for a place to belong, who have folded their lives into cardboard boxes and goodbyes. The devised solo piece written by Ramanjit Kaur and Ruhani Singh, directed by Ramanjit, traces the journey of […]
