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
Sports in India have become the subject of several plays in recent times, creating a subset of original drama for study. Worthy precedents in Bengali include Theatre Workshop’s Bāish Gajer
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
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
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
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
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
Flying under the radar to META 2025 in Delhi and surprising all by striking gold in nine of the 13 categories, these two Kolkata productions still don’t get enough bookings
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
