Based on the Netflix webseries Criminal, exploring the scars of sexual harassment in the context of an unresolved police interrogation. Adapted and directed by Dipankar Sen.
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Premiere of 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. |
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Dramatized from Narayan Sanyal’s novel by Tirthankar Chanda, about an idealistic teacher. Directed by Ram Mukhopadhyay. Read my review. |
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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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Sunanda Sikdar’s award-winning book, based on her poignant childhood memories in East Pakistan, dramatized and directed by Kishore Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.
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Premiere of a play based on Taranjit Kaur's storyline and Vikrant Dhote's script, directed by Ramanjit Kaur. A queer tale of love, longing and the quiet choices women make for family, culture and survival. |
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Written and directed by Debasish. An imaginative account of the conflict between Nadir Shah and Muhammad Shah. Highly recommended: ★★★★★ Read my review. |
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A one-hour play based on Taranjit Kaur’s storyline and Vikrant Dhote’s script, directed by Ramanjit Kaur. A queer tale of love, longing and the quiet choices women make for family, culture and survival. Two shows, at 5 and 7 p.m. |
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About rural superstition exploiting young girls, dramatized from Sayantani Putatunda and directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
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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. |
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Amar Mitra's novel chronicling a year in the life of an estuarine island, mixing realism with the myth of a sea turtle, dramatized and directed by Ranjan Ray. |
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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. |
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Based on Agatha Christie's drama about a murder and directed by Aaron Targain, in English. |
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Revival of their 2002 production. Based on Ariane Mnouchkine’s dramatization of Klaus Mann’s novel on the Nazi co-option of artists, translated and directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ |
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Utpal Dutt’s classic play, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ |
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A play written by Parthapratim Deb dramatizing the story of Krishna, directed by Sohini Sengupta.
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Utpal Dutt’s classic play, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★
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At the prestigious META 2025, this production directed by Anirudh Sarkar received the awards for Best Ensemble, Best Lighting (Badal Das), Best Female Actor (Ranjini Ghosh) and Best Choreography (Subhojiet Guha and Madhumita Chakraborty). Written by the late Alakhnandan Sinha in Bundeli dialect around 1990, the play protests against rural oppression. |
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Revival of Chetana’s classic production, written and directed by Arun Mukhopadhyay. |
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Sudrak’s new, so-called “uneducated” satire on education written and directed by Debasis Majumdar. Read my review.
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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. |
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Revival of the production featuring poetic text by Joy Goswami, direction by Gautam Halder and solo enactment by Bijoylakshmi Barman. |
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An original romantic play commemorating the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, written by Rakesh Ghosh and directed by Parthapratim Deb. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review.
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Harold Pinter's early drama translated into Bengali and directed by Arindam Mukherjee. |
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Saadat Hasan Manto's classic story dramatized and expanded by Rajesh Kumar and directed by Aloke Chakravorty in Hindi. |
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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. |
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Narayan Sanyal’s Rāni Kādambini, dramatized by Swatilekha Sengupta and directed by Sohini Sengupta, about Kadambini Ganguly’s achievements as one of the first two Indian women to graduate (1882) and earn a medical degree (1886). Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here. |
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Utpal Dutt’s classic play, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review. |
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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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Directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya and written by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay, about a man who dutifully takes care of his ailing father but in doing so risks alienating his wife. |
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The highly popular 1932 play written by Rabindranath Maitra, directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★ Read my review here.
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Revival of Sayak's production dramatized by Chandan Sen from Amar Mitra's short story “Akal”. In a poor, remote backwater, the young Damini serves virtually as a caregiver to three generations of ineffectual, doddering men: she wangles government dole for them, using her charm to achieve her ends while keeping her dignity. The apparently social drama […]
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Badal Sircar’s mysterious comedy directed by Prokash Bhattacharya. |
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Dramatized by Sumantra Chattopadhyay from Abby Mann’s Judgment at Nuremberg about the Nazi trials and directed by Biplab Bandyopadhyay. |