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.