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

Atelier’s Campus Theatre Festival saw two Delhi colleges come to Kolkata in its 14th annual season—no small achievement for Atelier, who this year even faced intimidation and an attack on

Narayan Sanyal’s books have powered two new dramatizations, both by playwrights with a serious bent, befitting Sanyal’s deeper (as opposed to popular) writing. Spectators who bemoan an absence of inspiring

Mahmood Farooqui from Delhi made a welcome return to Kolkata after over a decade, at the invitation of Kolkata Centre for Creativity, to present his Dastangoi Collective’s Dastan-e-Karn az Mahabharata.