Continuing active theatre well into his eighties, Ashok Mukhopadhyay does a star turn as the hero in Theatre Workshop’s Great Bengal Theatre and directs Nirbak Abhinay Academy’s Saodāgarer Naukā simultaneously,
Suman Sengupta’s work as dramatist-director attains a peak on Chetla Krishti Sansad’s Āmār Gān, hopefully one of many other peaks in future. It deservedly won Theatre Workshop’s annual Satyen Mitra
Time once again to record the activities of Bengali groups outside Kolkata. The two reviewed in this column demonstrate technical standards indistinguishable from their metropolitan counterparts, proving that the so-called
Kolkatans can currently see Bengali productions based on the works of Central European authors, not a very common occurrence. Ganakrishti has of course regularly translated plays by Evald Flisar from
The high costs of bringing an out-of-town proscenium production here have scuttled our once-regular exposure to such theatre. In its place, we get more barebones solo or duo performers, Mumbai
Debasish Ray’s fascination with history has led him to compose biodrama on two pioneers, of Bengali printing and French painting respectively. For Aneek, he directed Āksharik, which he dramatized from
Bengali theatre has resurrected its links with three major 20th-century European dramatists: Sławomir Mrożek of Poland and Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame, of Italy. Both the
Education has become a central concern for several Bengali groups ever since our very own “School for Scandal” erupted in front of our eyes last year. Among recent productions, I
It always encourages to see young groups working imaginatively. The yet-unnamed creators of Necropolis staged their third performance of this play, though it goes back nine years to dramatist-director Debopriya
A couple of current Bengali plays hark back to classical Greek antecedents without doing justice to them. Shohan’s Āmirāh, inspired by Sophocles’ Antigone, gets it wrong by simplifying the tragic
Bengali groups have turned to Vijay Tendulkar’s plays again for their thought-provoking content, this time with victimized women at the centre, newly reviving Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe and Mitrachi Goshta,
Sayak resuscitated their competitive festival of Bengali plays this year, last held in 2018, and featured ten productions selected by Debasis Majumdar on the basis of their scripts. As a
