Mukhomukhi’s Ajker Shajahan, at Girish
Girish Mancha BagbazarUtpal Dutt’s classic play, revived by Mukhomukhi and directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay.
Utpal Dutt’s classic play, revived by Mukhomukhi and directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay.
Translated from Pirandello’s metatheatrical classic Six Characters in Search of an Author by Rudraprasad Sengupta and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.
Dramatized from Michael Madhusudan Dutt and directed by Goutam Halder, his long-running hit.
Acclaimed Polish dramatist Slawomir Mrozek's dark political satire on power titled Police, adapted and directed by Arpita Ghosh.
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: ★★★★
Based on Tarak Rej's story about two sisters who carry corpses from a village police station to the morgue for a living, and their meeting with an unemployed graduate wanted for a crime. Dramatized and directed by Atanu Chatterjee.
Dario Fo’s political satire Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (1974) adapted into Bengali by Bismoy Roy and directed by Bimal Chakraborty.
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.
Dario Fo’s political satire Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (1974) adapted into Bengali by Bismoy Roy and directed by Bimal Chakraborty.
Based on Debes Roy's Bengali rendering of Shakespeare's classic and Jan Otcenasek's Romeo and Juliet in Darkness. Directed by Abanti Chakraborty.