Invited by Sanskriti Sagar, venue hosts of Swapna-sandhani’s Marx in Kolkata, I looked forward to the much-publicized play, the first in English by this Bengali group. Press features about it

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

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