• Necropolis, at Uttam Mancha

    Uttam Mancha Manoharpukur Road, Kolkata

    A bilingual satire (Bengali and English) and dire commentary on love and surveillance in a dystopian world. Written and directed by Debopriya Bhattacharya, Necropolis transcends the bounds of traditional storytelling.

  • Prachya’s Quarantine, at Academy

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

    Adapted into Bengali and on the Indo-Bangladeshi border from Arthur Miller’s classic A View from the Bridge, about illegal migrants, by Kaberi Basu and directed by Buddhadeb Das.

  • Angik’s Binodini Opera, at Academy

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

    Biographical drama on Nati Binodini co-written by Abanti Chakraborty and Sibashis Bandyopadhyay, and directed by Abanti Chakraborty.

  • Rangroop’s Manmayi Girls School, at Academy

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

    The highly popular 1932 play written by Rabindranath Maitra, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.

  • Chetana’s Marich Sambad, at Academy

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

    Chetana’s classic production, written and directed by Arun Mukhopadhyay.

  • Johnny Got His Gun (from Finland), at KCC

    Kolkata Centre for Creativity Anandapur, E M Bypass, Kolkata

    Asian premiere of this one-man Finnish production based on Dalton Trumbo's banned antiwar American novel of the same name published in 1939. Directed by Essi Rossi from Helsinki and well-received at the Edinburgh Fringe.

  • Chetana’s Mahatma Banam Gandhi, at Academy

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

    Translated by Arun Mukherjee from Ajit Dalvi’s play on Gandhiji’s relationship with his son, and directed by Sujan Mukherjee. Recommended: ★★★★

  • Dwitiya Satta’s Na Tor Janya, at Rabindra Sadan

    Rabindra Sadan Cathedral Road, Kolkata

    Written and directed by Suman Sengupta, a portrayal of the dilemma of an accomplished commercial artist who sells out to the ruthless and competitive contemporary ratrace.

  • Johnny Got His Gun (from Finland), at KCC

    Kolkata Centre for Creativity Anandapur, E M Bypass, Kolkata

    Asian premiere of this one-man Finnish production based on Dalton Trumbo’s banned antiwar American novel of the same name published in 1939. Directed by Essi Rossi from Helsinki and well-received at the Edinburgh Fringe.

  • Santoshpur Anuchintan’s Ghar, at Madhusudan

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

    An original play in Hindustani and Punjabi. Dramatist-director Gaurav Das weaves a sophisticated narrative with three main strands. In the background we view the legendary Punjabi qissā of Mirza and Sahiban, the foreground occupied by two other star-crossed romances, one of a Muslim girl who liked dancing with her male Sikh musician friend, and the […]