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: ★★★★. Read my review.
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Premiere of this production based on Habib Tanvir's autobiographical writings and public interviews. Scripted and directed by Danish Husain. |
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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. |
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Revival of Ajitesh Bandopadhyay’s drama about the crisis of identity and relevance of a Jatra artiste. Directed by Ashok Mukhopadhyay.
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Director Saurav Palodhi’s adaptation of Clifford Odets’s 1935 socialist classic, Waiting for Lefty, about the poverty of taxi drivers in the USA. |
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Academy of Fine Arts Workers Union hosts all-night theatre supporting #WeWantJustice. Participating directors include Sima Mukhopadhyay, Poulomi Chatterjee, Srabanti Bhattacharya, Turna Das, Sanjita and Nancy.
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Adapted from Slovenian dramatist Evald Flisar’s What about Leonardo, set in a neurological institute, and directed by Amitava Dutta. |
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Adapted from Pirandello’s Right You Are If You Think So and directed by Arpita Ghosh. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
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An ebullient Bengali pastiche of Hamlet. 4th Bell had debuted in 2011 with this play, deliberately and delectably perverting Shakespeare’s tragedy into a festive comedy written and directed by Aniruddha Dasgupta. Recommended: ★★★★ |
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Story by Sunil Gangopadhyay about a fictional 19th-century British officer in Bengal, dramatized by Sounava Basu and directed by Ashoke Chattopadhyay. |
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Rangroop has revived this searing play because of last month's tragedy in Kolkata. Dramatized by Mainak Sengupta, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here. |
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Dario Fo’s political satire Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (1974) adapted into Bengali by Bismoy Roy and directed by Bimal Chakraborty.
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Ujjwal Chattopadhyay’s play about the triangle between Tappa pioneer Nidhu-babu, his royal patron-friend Mahananda Ray, and the latter’s mistress Srimati who became Nidhu-babu’s devoted disciple. Directed by Soumitra Mitra. |
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Revival of dramatist-director Loknath Bandyopadhyay’s farce, adapted from Peter Shaffer’s hit Black Comedy (1965). One of the funniest productions you can presently view; we cannot reveal more! Recommended: ★★★★ |
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The Dario Fo--Franca Rame political satire Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay (1974) adapted into Bengali by Bismoy Roy and directed by Bimal Chakraborty. |
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The last play written by Little Thespian’s S. M. Azhar Alam, directed by Uma Jhunjhunwala. About the various challenges faced by Indian Muslims during the conflict in East Pakistan in 1971, through the struggles of one such family. |
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Debasish Ray’s biodrama about Panchanan Karmakar, the first creator of Bengali moveable typeface in the 18th century, based on Rajat Chakraborti’s novel Panchananer Haraph. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review. |
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Biographical drama on Nati Binodini co-written by Abanti Chakraborty and Sibashis Bandyopadhyay, and directed by Abanti Chakraborty. |
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Adapted from Ariel Dorfman’s internationally successful Death and the Maiden and directed by Kishore Sengupta. |
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Written and directed by Chandan Sen, Ekanāyaker Sesh Rāt depicts an imaginary strife-torn African nation where a military dictator took over but now faces a popular revolution.
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Director Saurav Palodhi’s adaptation of Clifford Odets’s 1935 socialist classic, Waiting for Lefty, about the poverty of taxi drivers in the USA. |
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Premiere of Ujjwal Chattopadhyay's play inspired by a foreign film about the personal conflict between a retired judge and his son who defends criminals. Directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya. |
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Sayak's new play written by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay, inspired by a foreign film about the personal conflict between a retired judge and his son who defends criminals. Directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya. |
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Mohit Chattopadhyaya’s play about two “madmen” in an asylum, directed by Saikat Ghosh. |
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An attempt to make people aware of our ancestors' fight to protect the historic Jamkopai forest of Chakradharpur in Jharkhand. The play, developed by dramatist-director Gaurav Das in response to the climate change that threatens our very existence, awakens us to act and protect Mother Nature for future generations. The performers are children and young adults […] |
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Translated by Arun Mukherjee from Ajit Dalvi’s play on Gandhiji’s relationship with his son, and directed by Sujan Mukherjee. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
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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. |
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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. |
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A blind and wheelchair-bound youth, highly intelligent, wants to know about light from his physicist father. Written and directed by Suman Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★ |
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Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” satire on education directed by Debasis Majumdar.
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Dramatist-director Debasish’s new play about an old building facing demolition, whose residents face eviction, and whose inhabitants include non-humans too. Recommended: ★★★★ |
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Final performance of Chetana’s classic production Jagannath, adapted from Lu Xun’s The True Story of Ah Q and directed by Arun Mukhopadhyay.
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Dramatist-director Debasish’s biodrama about Panchanan Karmakar, the first creator of Bengali moveable typeface in the 18th century, based on Rajat Chakraborti’s novel Panchananer Haraph. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review. |