It is heartening and heartwarming to see large-scale theatre-in-education in good hands committed to sowing the seeds of the art form in children. The latest school to invest (literally, too)

Samaresh Basu’s Prajāpati caused a sensation soon after publication in 1967, when it faced a lawsuit for obscenity, the courts ruling in favour of the prosecution and banning it. (I

Nandipat and director Prokash Bhattacharya lavish laborious care in every department of their latest production, which guarantees its success at the box office. The play, too, by Ujjwal Chattopadhyay, attempts

Disturbed by the politico-cultural winds blowing across the country, director Asit Basu goes back to Nazi times for parallels, just like his mentor Utpal Dutt did. For Jharer Kheyā, translated

Last year, I had reviewed Joyār Bhātir Kābya, about trafficking in the Sundarban. This year, Bandel Arohee’s dramatization of Amar Mitra’s novel, Dhanapatir Char, set in that delta, too, also

A couple of original plays on non-normative liaisons passed through town this month. From Delhi, The Films and Theatre Society’s Dad’s Girlfriend raised the subject of an autumn–spring relationship, while

Among the handful of Urdu productions coming out of Kolkata, two currently running ones emanate from longstanding Hindi groups, both of which use familiar modern classics as their sources. For

After an uncharacteristic hiatus, Kolkata’s most prolific English-language troupe, Theatrecian, came back with a double-decker bang (to catch the pun, skip to the last paragraph). Founder Tathagata Chowdhury having moved