• Pancham Vaidic’s Pulish, at Madhusudan

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

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

  • Nat-ranga’s Chhayapather Sheshe, at Academy

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

    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: ★★★★

  • Nitya Natya Sanstha’s Lash, at Madhusudan

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

    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.

  • Nandipat’s Pet-i Case, at Academy

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

    Dario Fo’s political satire Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (1974) adapted into Bengali by Bismoy Roy and directed by Bimal Chakraborty.

  • 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.

  • Nandipat’s Pet-i Case, at Minerva

    Minerva Theatre Utpal Dutt Sarani (Beadon Street), Kolkata

    Dario Fo’s political satire Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (1974) adapted into Bengali by Bismoy Roy and directed by Bimal Chakraborty.

  • Anya Theatre’s Romeo & Juliet, at Academy

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

    Based on Debes Roy's Bengali rendering of Shakespeare's classic and Jan Otcenasek's Romeo and Juliet in Darkness. Directed by Abanti Chakraborty.

  • 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.

  • Krishti (Ranchi)’s Nil Ranger Ghora, at Academy

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

    Mohit Chattopadhyaya's 1964 play loosely based on D.H. Lawrence's short story “The Rocking-horse Winner”, guest-directed by Saurav Palodhi, about a man’s visions of horses that win at the races, which come true, and how his greedy family pressures him to continue.