An intimate shared experience where Karen Houge explores trust through personal stories and playful audience interaction. In an era of war and political division, it offers a fresh and urgent perspective on how trust is built, broken and repaired. It is a conversation about the world we live in and the future of humanity. Do […]
A collaborative musical with over 100 students taking the stage, from Birla High, Mahadevi Birla World Academy, Sri Sri Academy, Sushila Birla Girls' and BSS schools.
Evocative Dastangoi storytelling performance by Mahmood Farooqui and Poonam Girdhani, adapting Geetanjali Shree’s novel Ret Samadhi set against the haunting echoes of Partition. It follows an elderly woman’s journey from grief to self-discovery after her husband’s death, in the search for a long-lost home, awakening questions of identity, memory and renewal. Inaugural performance of Ami […]
An imagined courtroom drama that explores the genius and faith, trials and triumphs, wit and wisdom, and life and works of Abdus Salam, Pakistani Nobel Prize-winner in Physics for contributing to unifying the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces. His vision was inspired by the surahs of the Quran which spoke to him of a deep […]
Minimal yet immersive, Maas strips theatre down to its essentials—body, memory, voice. Through her raw and deeply physical solo performance style, Jyoti Dogra explores the fragile yet unbreakable ties between memory, identity and the body as a vessel of both trauma and resilience. Personal narratives intermingle with cultural conditioning, as the play unravels the discomfort […]
Dramatized from Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s Ek Āshcharja Pheriwālā by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and directed by Debasish. A mysterious hawker sells seemingly useless things, which evil people conspire to capture, while an eccentric scientist pursues his thirst for knowledge, Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
Hilarious, surreal and deeply unsettling, Piyakkad explores the fragile line between intoxication and liberation. A man finds truth, illusion and escape through alcohol, blurring the boundary between reality and imagination. With Makarand Deshpande’s trademark mix of absurdist humour, lyrical monologues and raw emotional intensity, his one-man play becomes both a mirror of loneliness and a […]
Adapted from Dario Fo’s early farce The Virtuous Burglar and directed by Amitava Dutta. The thief's plans for a simple robbery are immediately complicated when he unexpectedly faces two sets of cheating partners. Forced to act as a go-between and peacemaker, he attempts to keep the multiple affairs a secret.
Revived production based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s Crime Passionnel about a Communist plot of political assassination, adapted into Bengali and directed by Arpita Ghosh.
Newly dramatized in Bengali from Howard Fast’s novel and directed by Rokeya Ray and Malay Ray. Recommended. Read review here.
