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JHARER CHUROY | RUP-KRANTI

Among the groups that rehearsed through the lockdown, Shohan not only staged one new play in early 2021 but premiered another towards the end of the year. The productions form

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Padatik / rikh-, like several other groups, have revived their interrupted pre-pandemic productions as well as mounted a brand-new play. Vinay Sharma’s two-hander titled Dosh features Mumbai actors Harsh Khurana

MATIR GARI MRICHCHHAKATIK | CREON O ANTIGONE

Naye Natua is among those Bengali groups partial to classics, and like Kathakriti, revived dramatic masterpieces both before and after the lockdown, maintaining a

KHAT | THE PLAGUE–A FIGHT AGAINST

Nandipat’s Narir Mancha this year spotlighted productions by women directors, as many as eleven of them. Among these, the two of longest duration dealt with cataclysmic traumas affecting humanity, not

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TAR PRATIKSHAY | ENDGAME

The pandemic has given new meaning to existentialism, particularly the bleak, socially isolated world of Beckett where we simply await death, which hovers backstage, unseen but omnipresent. Understandably, Kolkata theatre

NAYAN KABIRER PALA | ADHUNA ANTIGONE

A few of the more active Bengali groups have not only rebooted the paused run of their pre-lockdown plays but mounted brand-new productions already. One of them, Kathakriti, shows director

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ATHA HIDIMBA KATHA

In my last review, I praised Natadha’s Mahābhārat2 for concentrating on just one Parva of the epic. This time I must heap accolades on another take (from the Adi Parva)

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MAHABHARAT 2

When Natadha staged their Mahābhārat in 2002 with leading actors from other groups, I had commented that the compression could not possibly do justice to the sweep of the epic.