The pandemic has given new meaning to existentialism, particularly the bleak, socially isolated world of Beckett where we simply await death, which hovers backstage, unseen but omnipresent. Understandably, Kolkata theatre
A few of the more active Bengali groups have not only rebooted the paused run of their pre-lockdown plays but mounted brand-new productions already. One of them, Kathakriti, shows director
In my last review, I praised Natadha’s Mahābhārat2 for concentrating on just one Parva of the epic. This time I must heap accolades on another take (from the Adi Parva)
When Natadha staged their Mahābhārat in 2002 with leading actors from other groups, I had commented that the compression could not possibly do justice to the sweep of the epic.
Among the Bengali productions brought to a standstill by Covid are two entertaining comedies by leading purveyors of the genre. Both deal with the impact of new technology on married
The rising intolerance toward religious minorities in India has become a matter of grave concern not just within the country but also internationally. In the Christmas season, we must appreciate
As the auditoriums gradually reopened this year, Bengali groups began to revive their productions that had remained suspended since March 2020. Garia Krishti’s Kālpurush presents the eponymous third novel of
I write this on World Theatre Day, at the end of Little Thespian’s Jashn-e-Rang festival. After exactly a year of pandemic closures I entered an auditorium again—despite warnings—only so as
Group: Rangroop Director: Sima Mukhopadhyay Dramatization: Mainak Sengupta Source: Sayantani Putatunda Under the commitment and direction of Sima Mukhopadhyay, Rangroop continues to place women at the centre of its plays,
Atelier’s Campus Theatre festival notches up its 12th season, and visited Kolkata again last weekend with its curation of the best of Delhi’s college productions. How we wish that someone
Aneek’s annual Ganga Jamuna Natya Utsab has become the best platform to view a range of Bangladeshi theatre. This year, most of the seven productions interpreted landmarks from various literatures.
Because the Minerva festival receives generous public funding, it attracts more stringent scrutiny. Its attempt to replicate the failed model of the National School of Drama Mahotsav stupefies. Viewers had
