Reviews

BHANIKA

The more I see the work of Piyal Bhattacharya with his young disciples, the more I am astonished by the ease with which he unites scholarship of the Nātyashāstra and

CHIRIYAKHANAR GALPA | KIRITIR NOTEBOOK

Ganakrishti is in the vanguard of a rethinking among Bengali groups, a few of whom have taken the first steps to diversify out of their familiar proscenium surroundings into the

PULAKITA BISHAD | KALPANIK BASTAB

Loknath Bandyopadhyay’s fascination with the functioning of the human mind has led him to adapt intriguing recent American stage and screen works for Bengali theatre. For the sake of information

SPARTACUS

Quite by coincidence, two novels by Howard Fast have made it to the Bengali stage simultaneously, enabling us to rediscover this American author who fell prey to McCarthy’s witchhunting in

BAPU | BAPU MAHATMA MOHANDAS

Independence Week provides an appropriate occasion to discuss the rather uncommon phenomenon of two Bengali plays on the Father of the Nation running concurrently – with a third to come

CHATUSHPAP

Rangapat has risen to a position of visibility among Bengali groups based upon its recent track record of mounting spectacular interpretations of original historical drama, though it also stages more

VIDUR DHARMAYATRA | AHATA AMBA

Vidur Dharmayātrā Group: Sukhchar Pancham Dramatist-director: Maloy Mitra Āhata Ambā Group: Behala Anudarshi Dramatist-director: Sumana Chakraborty That inexhaustible storehouse of stories, the Mahābhārata, provides more raw material for the