Dramatized from Manik Bandyopadhyay and directed by Arun Mukherjee. The story revisits the historic Tebhaga Movement of 1946-47 in Bengal, where Haran, an old sharecropper, has gone half-mad after police killed his son.

Inspired by Steve Metzger’s awardwinning children’s book Pluto Visits Earth!, the story of a tiny planet but also a beautiful wish that grants love, rejoices in friendship and finds hope in remembering who we actually are. Dramatized by Kallol Lahiri and Alekhya Ghosh, set in Kolkata, and directed by Anamitra Khan. Recommended: ★★★★

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

The first play in Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre. Adapted from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Pala style by Bangladeshi director Sayik Siddiquee.

Written and directed by Debashis. An imaginative account of the conflict between Nadir Shah and Muhammad Shah. Highly recommended: ★★★★★ Read my review.

From Howard Fast’s novel about the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, dramatized and directed by Kaushik Chattopadhyay. The second evening of Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre.

The record-breaking comedy that has had an uninterrupted run since 1972, with over 1200 performances. Written and directed by the late Saroj Ray for his own group Natasena.

The third evening of Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre. Arindam Mukherjee's play directed by Tathagata Chaudhuri.

Premiere of director Saurav Palodhi's adaptation of Clifford Odets's 1935 socialist classic, Waiting for Lefty, about the poverty of taxi drivers in the USA.

Written by Amitabha Chakrabarti, directed by Ranjan Roy. Recommended viewing: ★★★★  Read my review. Fourth evening of Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre.

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

Mohit Chattopadhyaya's early play directed by Saurav Palodhi. The fifth evening of Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre.

Inspired by Badal Sircar’s Mani-Kanchan and directed by Ayan Banerjee. The play anticipates the future through the act of a famous magician couple. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.

A new dramatization of Manto’s stories, scripted and directed by Anubha Fatehpuria. Two shows, at 4 pm and 7 pm.

Utpal Dutt’s classic play, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay.

Dario Fo’s political satire Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (1974) adapted into Bengali by Bismoy Roy and directed by Bimal Chakraborty. The seventh evening of Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre.

A play about the Kushan emperor Kanishka, written by Agantuk and directed by Haradhan Datta. The eighth evening of Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre.

Vijay Tendulkar's classic courtroom drama, transcreated and directed by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay. The ninth evening of Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre.

A two-part play on the essence of love, the first part by Debesh Chattopadhyay and the second based on Nirmal Verma, directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay.

Amar Mitra's novel Sesh Pahar Asrunadi dramatized and directed by Kishore Sengupta. The last evening of Sayak's ten-day competitive festival of Bengali theatre.

Written by Swapnamoy Chakraborty and directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. An ordinary man’s rise to money, fame and power lead him astray from his earlier humanity.

Director Saurav Palodhi’s adaptation of Clifford Odets’s 1935 socialist classic, Waiting for Lefty, about the poverty of taxi drivers in the USA.

Utpal Dutt’s classic play, revived by Mukhomukhi and directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay.

Translated from Pirandello’s metatheatrical classic Six Characters in Search of an Author by Rudraprasad Sengupta and directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.

Dramatized from Michael Madhusudan Dutt and directed by Goutam Halder, his long-running hit.

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: ★★★★

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 new, so-called "uneducated" play directed by Debasis Majumdar.

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.