Sayak’s new production, written by Arijit Biswas, directed by Meghnad Bhattacharya. An old party wholetimer in a village guards a ruined building that once was his local party office. Vested interests want him evicted to construct a community centre-cum-supermart. The story of thousands of grassroots workers who gave their all for an ideology and who […]

Dario Fo’s comedy The Virtuous Burglar, adapted and directed by Amitava Dutta. A robber breaks into an apartment, but his plans are complicated when he discovers he’s not alone, has to face two sets of cheating partners, and is forced to act as a go-between and a peacemaker. The would-be criminal beomes the moral compass.

An oddly philosophical young woman on a whimsical, chaotic ride through growing up, falling in love and falling apart. Somewhere between a breakdown and a breakthrough, the truth begins to blur. A bittersweet story about finding meaning—if there is any at all. Written and directed by Dhrreti Bhatt. More performances on the 5th, 6th and […]

A young researcher visits an old, dilapidated hall in north Kolkata, whose octogenarian owner gradually starts narrating his story and the miraculous journey of a young Gomira dancer from a small village in Dinajpur to the world of Kolkata commercial theatre, as well as the complicated lives of others around him. Written and directed by […]

An oddly philosophical young woman on a whimsical, chaotic ride through growing up, falling in love and falling apart. Somewhere between a breakdown and a breakthrough, the truth begins to blur. A bittersweet story about finding meaning—if there is any at all. Written and directed by Dhrreti Bhatt. More performances on the 6th and 7th.

Second day of 3-day festival, featuring Sitayan by Dsyti Lokkala Sanverdhan Akademi (Pinguli, Maharashtra) directed by Ganapat Sakharam Masge, and Agadum Baghadum by Not-a-Storyteller (Hridaypur) directed by Avik Bhattacharya.

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 […]

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. Three performances, at 10:30, 2:30 and 6:30.

A philosophical young woman with her therapist on a whimsical, chaotic ride through growing up and falling in love. Somewhere between a breakdown and a breakthrough, the reality blurs. A bittersweet story about confronting the truth. Written and directed by Dhrreti Bhatt. Recommended: ★★★★. Next performance on the 7th.

Concluding day of 3-day festival, featuring the host group's The Archer Stood Alone, on the Ekalavya story, directed by Sudip Gupta; Nicov Botelladearroz (Colombia)'s Rebirth directed by Nicolas Bernal; and Rang-Berang (Kolkata)'s Sidhel Kathi, directed by Atish Mukherjee.

A philosophical young woman with her therapist on a whimsical, chaotic ride through growing up and falling in love. Somewhere between a breakdown and a breakthrough, the reality blurs. A bittersweet story about confronting the truth. Written and directed by Dhrreti Bhatt. Recommended: ★★★★.

A Palestinian actor learns there’s more to English girls than sex appeal. A Pakistani-born terror suspect figures out what’s wrong with his first novel. A British youth suspects all is not what it seems with his tech object of desire. Written by Hassan Abdulrazzak (of Baghdad Wedding), this is a satire of three men experiencing […]

Dramatized from Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s Ek Āshcharja Pheriwālā by Kuntal Mukhopadhyay and directed by Debasish. A mysterious hawker sells seemingly useless things, which evil people conspire to capture, while an eccentric scientist pursues his thirst for knowledge, Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

KNK’s new production directed by Kishore Sengupta featuring two couples, friendship, suspicion, deceit. And the truth. Adapted by Ratan Kumar Das from Florian Zeller’s The Truth, where trust is fragile, loyalty is negotiable, and everyone has something to hide. Recommended: ★★★★

Writer-director-actor Durga Venkatesan's solo performance that explores invisible labour, memory, care, and the quiet expectations placed upon women through the familiar space of the kitchen. Blending theatre, sound and storytelling, she transforms an everyday act into a moving reflection on domestic life and human connection. Two performances, at 5 and 8 pm.

A play written by Parthapratim Deb dramatizing the story of Krishna, directed by Sohini Sengupta.

The middle-class Bengali's dream of building their own house, told in the comic story of a clerk's fulfilment of that dream beset by oppressive social and political forces around him and his family. Written by Loknath Bandyopadhyay and directed by Shyamal Chakrabarti.

Ashok Kumar Mukhopadhyay's novel Agnipurush about the freedom fighter Ullaskar Dutta, dramatized by Tirthankar Chanda and directed by Prokash Bhattacharya.

Four childhood friends from the 1990s grow up and go different ways, passing through youthful romances, heated arguments and political movements, testifying to changing times through the decades. Dramatized from Rahul Arunoday Banerjee’s stories and directed by Saurav Palodhi. The only production from Kolkata to reach the final round of META 2026, Delhi, where it […]

One man, many characters, and a lifetime of stories. Directed and performed in Hindi by Mahesh Manjrekar.

Revival of Rajat Kapoor's clown adaptation of Shakeskeare's King Lear.

The poet Shakti Chattopadhyay’s life, thought and times dramatized by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay and directed by Debasish.

Revival of director Rajat Kapoor's clown adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s magical story about Gaur, who loves to play the flute, and is loved by the ancient folk in his village, threatened by the arrival of a man who wants to take over everything. Dramatized and directed by Suman Sengupta. Recommended: ★★★★. Read my review.

British dramatist Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Winter Hill, translated and set in Bengal by Tirthankar Chanda, about a group of women discussing the construction of a luxury hotel in a remote rural location. Directed by Sima Mukhopadhyay. Recommended: ★★★★

Rangakarmee's new production of the reputed Hindi dramatist Laxminarayan Lal's last major play, a musical satire from 1979, directed by Anirudh Sarkar.

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

Revival of this one-act comic thriller, adapted into Bengali from Richard James' I Am Hamlet and directed by Avignan Bhattacharya. An amateur actor auditions for the lead role in a local production of Hamlet. The director puts him through his acting paces, but slowly we learn that the actor has more in common with the […]