Baghajatin Alaap’s Padma Nadir Majhi, at Academy
Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaManik Bandyopadhyay’s classic novel dramatized and directed by Parthapratim Deb.
Manik Bandyopadhyay’s classic novel dramatized and directed by Parthapratim Deb.
Dramatist-director Debasish’s biodrama about Panchanan Karmakar, the first creator of Bengali moveable typeface in the 18th century, based on Rajat Chakraborti’s novel Panchananer Haraph. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
One of the more unusual treatments of Nati Binodini’s llife: a play within a play on her last years and her friendship with Tara Sundari, promising revelations that have not […]
British dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Winter Hill, translated and set in Bengal by Tirthankar Chanda, about a group of women discussing the construction of a luxury hotel in a remote rural […]
Adapted into Urdu by S. M. Azhar Alam from The Sins of the Mother by American playwright Tony Devaney Morinelli. A one-act all-women psychological family drama that examines the destructive […]
Written and directed by Chandan Sen, Ekanāyaker Sesh Rāt depicts an imaginary strife-torn African nation where a military dictator took over but now faces a popular revolution.
What does it mean to leave a house, and what do we carry with us when we do? A striking contemporary Bengali play by Subhashis Gangopadhyay that explores identity, memory […]
Written and directed by Debashis. Based on the freedom fighters arrested in the Alipore Bomb Case of 1908. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
Shakespeare’s classic translated into Bengali by Chaiti Mitra and directed by Koushik Sen. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
A comedy about confusion, fashionable anxiety, technology, transactional relationships, wokeness and all the problems that plague Generation Z. Loneliness and convenience bring a couple together, but then sparks fly. Written […]