• Pancham Vaidic’s Pulish, at Girish

    Girish Mancha Bagbazar

    Acclaimed Polish dramatist Slawomir Mrozek’s dark political satire on power titled Police, adapted and directed by Arpita Ghosh.

  • Padatik’s Beparwah Manto, at Padatik

    Padatik Little Theatre 6/7 A J C Bose Road, Kolkata

    A new dramatization of Manto’s stories, scripted and directed by Anubha Fatehpuria. They question very basic aspects of humanity — friendship, independence, slavery, belonging, longing, obscenity, civilization, culture — and if we have progressed at all from when he last held a mirror to his times.

  • Sudrak’s Shikh-kha Jatir Merudanda, at Academy

    Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” play directed by Debasis Majumdar.

  • Padatik’s Kagaz ke Gubbare, at KCC

    Kolkata Centre for Creativity Anandapur, E M Bypass, Kolkata

    Dramatized from Ismat Chughtai’s stories and directed by Anubha Fatehpuria. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • Belgharia Avimukh’s Kojagari, at Academy

    Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    From Howard Fast’s novel Silas Timberman, dramatized and directed by Kaushik Chattopadhyay. Highly recommended: ★★★★★. Read my review.

  • Padatik’s Kagaz ke Gubbare, at Padatik

    Padatik Little Theatre 6/7 A J C Bose Road, Kolkata

    Dramatized from Ismat Chughtai’s stories and directed by Anubha Fatehpuria. Two shows, at 4 and 7 pm. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

  • KCC Arts Lab’s Bechara B.B., at KCC

    Kolkata Centre for Creativity Anandapur, E M Bypass, Kolkata

    An exploration of Bertolt Brecht's life, ideas and politics, reflecting the chaos and decay he experienced. Directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay.

  • Curtain Call’s Nitanta Byaktigata, at Madhusudan

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

    Written by Sounava Bose based on Narayan Sanyal’s Ami Netaji-ke Dekhechhi about Netaji and the INA's Rani of Jhansi regiment in Burma, and directed by Tirthankar Chattopadhyay.