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EXCESS ESTROGEN | HOME IN A SUITCASE

Akvarious’ new production, Excess Estrogen, comprises seven ten-minute sketches about women written within the group, directed collectively and enacted exclusively by women. The form of serious playlets presented entertainingly harks

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RADHA-RAMAKRISHNA

Santanu Das, director of Kalyani Kalamandalam’s Radha-Ramakrishna, has surpassed all his previous work with the group on their 30th anniversary. Simultaneously, the author, Rakesh Ghosh, has outdone the plethora of

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PRAJAPATI

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

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CHANDRABATI KATHA

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

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CARETAKER | CHAR DEYALER MADHYE

Bengali theatre has had limited engagement with Harold Pinter primarily because of his thematic sophistication and unconventional writing, which they believe their viewers cannot comprehend. On the few occasions they

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LABOR DAY REUNION | ROLE REVERSAL

With great delight I can announce the advent of talented young dramatists in Kolkata writing original scripts in English. After Asif Currimbhoy, English-language theatre in the city over the last

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JHARER KHEYA | PADMABATI NATAK

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

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DAD’S GIRLFRIEND | THE CHAI QUEENS

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

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