Ushnik’s Bhut, at Academy
Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020, Kolkata, West Bengal, IndiaNew play written and directed by Ishita Mukhopadhyay. Part of Sayak's 50th year festival.
New play written and directed by Ishita Mukhopadhyay. Part of Sayak's 50th year festival.
About rural superstition exploiting young girls, dramatized from Sayantani Putatunda and directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★
Dramatized from the folktale of Mahuya by Dwija Kanai and directed by Goutam Halder. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.
Actor-director Goutam Halder has dramatized Mitali from Dostoevsky’s short story “White Nights”, about a young man who narrates how he fell in love with a woman.
New play on the nature of art, written, directed and songs composed by Abhijnan Bhattacharya. About the encounter of a theatre group led by an idealistic ex-Naxalite and a group of goons led by a political mercenary.
Revival of Utpal Dutt’s Barricade, about the Nazis’ strategies of establishing fascism democratically, directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★
Adapted from Evgeny Schwartz’s satirical Russian play The Dragon (1944) by Arpita Ghosh and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. A village terrorized by a dragon finds an unlikely saviour.
Adapted into Bengali from Arthur Miller’s classic A View from the Bridge, about illegal migrants, by Kaberi Basu and directed by Buddhadeb Das.
Adapted from Pirandello’s Right You Are If You Think So and directed by Arpita Ghosh. Recommended: ★★★★
Inspired by Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone, written by Anirban Sen and directed by Anish Ghosh.