Thanks to Sayak’s golden jubilee festival, I got a ringside view of one of Bengali theatre’s present blockbusters, Swapna-sandhani’s Hamlet. Unlike most directors today, Koushik Sen approaches it with singular

When our traditional forms hardly get called to the city anymore, one rejoices at initiatives like the Utsav held by the Crafts Council of West Bengal, which showcased artisans and

While that modern classic, Death of a Salesman, continues returning in Bengali incarnations owing to its growing relevance, Arthur Miller’s other plays have also seen revivals lately. A View from

The relative paucity of new Bengali playtexts leads many groups to dramatize short stories. Swapnamoy Chakraborty’s Chakshudān receives this treatment from Debasish Mukhopadhyay for South Kolkata Shrine. Set in Jharkhand,

My 50-year-old connection with The Red Curtain has led me to associate their productions with scrupulous rigour, a combination of artistic dedication and disciplined teamwork that provided a model for

Rejecting the self-fanfare that has become the norm for us Indians, Padatik have not publicized the impressive achievement of reaching their golden anniversary this year. Fittingly instead, they have launched

Two directors have revived their old dramatizations from Bengali fiction due to renewed political relevance. Arun Mukherjee first took up Manik Bandyopadhyay’s short story “Hārāner Nāt-jāmāi”, on the Tebhaga Movement,

Little Thespian’s last two productions place wronged wives centrestage. In Visarjan, dramatized by Uma Jhunjhunwala from Premchand’s story “Suhāg kā Shav”, Subhadra encourages her husband to accept a scholarship to