Reviews

DAYAMAYIR KATHA

A popular notion circulates about Partition literature, that Punjab has received more extensive treatment than Bengal. This stems from the fact that not enough translations exist of the Bengali literature

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HOMEMADE THEATRE

Eleven years after he came to Kolkata and decided to settle here, director Jean-Frederic Chevallier’s Trimukhi Platform has established itself in Borotalpada village, Paschim Medinipur, where he has introduced young

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PIECES

Vinay Sharma’s new script (his considered choice of label, rather than “play”) exemplifies postmodern bricolage – a text that comprises excerpts from many other texts, where Sharma’s own written contribution

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ADHA ADHURE

Quite uncommonly, Bengali theatre offers a range of classics on display at the moment, acquainting and educating new audiences with great dramatic literature of the past, both Western and Indian.

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ANAHUTA

Continuity has always remained a worry with Bengali groups after the departure of their leaders. But Dwijen Bandyopadhyay’s premature passing has not curtailed the activities of Samstab who, in the

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SHABD LILA

Dharamvir Bharati deserves this space for his eminence in Hindi literature, not Surnai Theatre and Folk Arts Foundation for their eminently forgettable production on his work, Shabd Lila, presented by

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KOTHAKAR CHARITRA KOTHAY REKHECHHO

As reported in this column already, Pirandello has stormed the Bengali stage with three productions this year. Aneek’s biodrama Pirandello o Puppeteer was followed by Sayak’s adaptation Bhālo Lok and

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ABRITTA | CHHOTO CHHABI

The inner workings of the cinematic medium and its relationship with the human material that it uses as its subject create two new films-within-plays. Both the Bengali groups, Nandipat and

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SADHABAR EKADASHI | KHELAGHAR

Two 19th-century classics of social realism return to the Bengali stage – one comic, the other tragic; one from our own hometown, the other from distant Norway. Theatre historians credit

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EBANG ANDHAKAR | PRIYATAMASU

Formed 20 years after its mother group Kathik went defunct, Bachhar Kuri Pare has already staged two productions, both dramatized by the founders Arijit Biswas and Prithunandan Ghose from World

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BISARJAN | ANGIRA | DURATARA DWIP

Intimate Theatre Evenings, at Padatik Little Theatre, began this month with three varied productions, each experimental but none completely successful. Most groups still approach such small spaces like any standard

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