• Theatre Workshop’s Agnishajya, at Madhusudan

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

    Utpal Dutt’s historical play about Ram Mohun Roy’s anti-sati activism, revived and directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.

  • Durgadas Smrity Sangha’s Joyar Bhatir Kabya, at Madhusudan

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

    Based on research in the Sundarban about the secular worship of Banbibi, rights to water, jungle and life, and the terrible menace of trafficking. Written and directed by Kingshuk Bandhopadhyay.

  • Nandipat’s Chandrabati Katha, at Academy

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

    Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play about Chandrabati, the 16th-century poet who composed the first Bangla Ramayan from the perspective of Sita, as well as parts of the Maimansingha Gitika. Directed by Prokash Bhattacharya.

  • Rangapat’s He Sindhusaras, at Academy

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

    Rangapat’s latest production, based by dramatist Ujjwal Chattopadhyay on the making of Chekhov’s classic The Seagull, recreating the work of the Moscow Art Theatre, its director Stanislavski and lead actress Olga Knipper (Chekhov’s wife). Directed by Tapanjyoti.

  • Ritabrata Productions’ Rakta-karabi, at Academy

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

    Rabindranath's classic revived, directed and acted by Chaiti Ghoshal.

  • Kalyani Kalamandalam’s Stri, at Madhusudan

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

    Based on Manik Bandyopadhyay, about how three desperate homemakers dominated by their husbands in different socioeconomic conditions empower themselves. Dramatized and directed by Somnath Gupta.

  • Ardere’s Othello, at ICCR

    Indian Council for Cultural Relations Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata, India

    Shakespeare's tragedy performed in English by a student group.

  • Swapna-sandhani’s Hamlet, at Academy

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

    Shakespeare’s classic directed by Koushik Sen in a Bengali translation by Chaiti Mitra. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.

  • The Red Curtain’s Role Reversal, at Kala Kunj

    Kala Kunj Kala Mandir, Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata

    An original play in English, part of the series "Feminism is not anti-men", written and directed by Piyush Daga.

  • Swapna-sandhani’s Taray Taray, at Academy

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

    A psychiatrist is visited by a young man who has severe hallucinations that connect him to Van Gogh and his paintings, questioning his own reality and that of his surroundings, and longing to visit the alternate reality in the paintings. Excerpts from Van Gogh’s life show nearly parallel crises. Dramatized from Srijato’s novel and directed […]