• The Creative Arts’ Home in a Suitcase, at TCA

    The Creative Arts 31/2A Sadananda Road, Kolkata, India

    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 […]

  • The Creative Arts’ Home in a Suitcase, at TCA

    The Creative Arts 31/2A Sadananda Road, Kolkata, India

    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 […]

  • The Creative Arts’ Home in a Suitcase, at TCA

    The Creative Arts 31/2A Sadananda Road, Kolkata, India

    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 […]

  • Rangroop’s Jadi Ar Ekbar, at Madhusudan

    Madhusudan Mancha Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Marking the birth centenary of Badal Sircar, the premiere of Rangroop’s revival of his perennial early comedy about wish fulfilment. Directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay.

  • Samstab’s Gaurer Kabach, at Madhusudan

    Madhusudan Mancha Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s magical story about Gaur, who loves to play the flute, and is loved by the ancient folk in his village, threatened by the arrival of a man who wants to take over everything. Dramatized and directed by Suman Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • Renaissance’s Toba Tek Singh, at Girish

    Girish Mancha Bagbazar

    Saadat Hasan Manto’s classic story dramatized and expanded by Rajesh Kumar and directed by Aloke Chakravorty in Hindi.

  • Paramik’s Rupantar, at Tapan

    Tapan Theatre Kalighat

    Inspired by Max Frisch's absurdist political parable The Fire Raisers, Indianized by Anirban Sen in Bengali and directed by Suvojit Bandopadhyay.

  • Anya Theatre’s Caretaker, at Gyan Manch

    Gyan Manch Gyan Manch, 11, Pretoria St, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Harold Pinter’s early drama translated into Bengali and directed by Arindam Mukherjee. Recommended: ★★★★

  • Nandipat’s Chandrabati Katha, at Madhusudan

    Madhusudan Mancha Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    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.

  • Chetana’s Hibijibi Bahini, at Madhusudan

    Madhusudan Mancha Gariahat Rd S, Jodhpur Park,, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    A “non-sense” production with child and adult actors, written and directed by Sujan Mukhopadhyay. Alibaba, accompanied by his trusty donkey, opens the door to the cave and discovers no treasure but ancient, worthless artifacts and a rusted lamp from which emerges the Genie. Meanwhile, the band of thieves finds themselves devoid of any occupation in […]