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Guests are assembled at the Cornwall home of Lady Tressilian. She dies a most brutal death. One of her guests is responsible for her death. The guest list includes Nevile Strange and his former wife Audrey Strange. Lady Tressilian’s devoted companion, Mary Aldin, Thomas Royde and the family solicitor, Matthew Treves, round up the guest list. Murder, Treves feels, is never the beginning of a story; it is the culmination of a sequence of events, the final point of a countdown towards zero. Everyone seems to have a foreboding of “something about to happen,” and they are not disappointed. Inspector Battle solves the mystery as his niece, Inspector Leach, the gum-chewing bubbly detective, provides the comic relief. This Agatha Christie thriller, produced by Theatrecian, is directed by Tathagata Chowdhury.
Event: Play in English,Towards Zero When: Today & tomorrow at 7 pm Where: Gyan Manch
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DRAMA
Till May 23 at Gallery Rasa, 828/1 Block-P, New Alipore; 4 pm - 8 pm: A set of 12 etchings by Suhas Roy.
Till May 24 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street, #2229 8641; 2 pm - 7 pm: The Fragmented Traditions — recent paintings by Aloke Kumar Paul.
Till May 24 at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 55 Giariahat Road, #2475 2275; 4 pm - 8 pm: Different Strokes, an exhibition of sculptures by Tarun Purkait.
Till May 24 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: The 4th annual exhibition of paintings by Manjushree Art & Music School.
Till May 25 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road, #2455 6942/43; 2 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of works by Somnath Hore.
Till May 25 at The Promenade lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am - 11 pm: The Doorways — a solo exhibition of recent works by Subuddha Ghosh. The artist will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm.
Till May 25 at Metropolitan Art Salon, Suite 18, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road; #2228 9719; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Loknath Yadav.
Till May 30 (except Sunday) at Weavers Studio Centre for Arts, 94 Ballygunge Place, #24604245; 6 pm: Inner Vision, an exhibition of terracotta sculptures by Durgadas, a visually impaired sculptor.
Till June 7 (except Sundays) at Galerie 88, 28B Shakespeare Sarani, #2290 2274; 11 am - 7 pm, Mondays (2 pm - 7 pm): Sculptures by Meera Mukherjee.
Till June 8 (except Tuesdays) at The Halo Heritage Gallery, 26 Ritchie Road, Maddox Square; 2 pm - 8 pm: Inner Eye, an exhibition of paintings on canvas by Jonaki Pal.
Till June 17 at Genesis Art Gallery, 8B Middleton Street, #2229 3886; 2 pm - 7 pm: Showcasing a host of latest works by contemporary, radical artists.
Till July 5 (except Sundays & public holidays) at CIMA Gallery, Sunny Towers, 43 Ashutosh Chowdhury Avenue, #2485 8717/8509; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Show featuring works by Jayasri Burman, Rashmi Bagchi Sarkar, Rameshwar Broota, Jogen Chowdhury, Rini Dhumal, Ramendra Nath Kastha, Paresh Maity, Uday Mondal, Santosh More, Rm. Palaniappan, Manu Parekh, Ganesh Pyne, Malay Saha, Dilip Kumar Samanta, Kingshuk Sarkar, Shambhavi, Lalu Prosad Shaw, Mayank Kumar Shyam, Sanjeev Sonpimpare and others.
Till July 31 (except Sundays) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am - 7 pm: Installation Photographs Vido Art. Participating artists: Jayashree Chakravarty, Aditya Basak, Chhatrapati Dutta, Paula Sengupta, Sanjeet Chowdhury, Debnath Basu, Tapati Chowdhury and Adip Dutta. Curated by Jayashree Chakravarty.
DRAMA
May 21 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Charbak presents Apsara Theater-er Mamla, based on Satyajit Ray’s story. Drama & music: Arindam Ganguly. Direction & in Feluda’s role: Sabyasachi Chakraborty.
May 21 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Aabhash presents its latest production, Bhalobasa Bharatbarsha. Drama, direction & acting: Shekhar Samaddar.
May 21 at Rabindra Sadan; 6 pm: Chetana presents Manik Bandyopadhyay’s Putul Nacher Itikatha. Direction: Arun Mukhopadhyay.
May 21 at Tapan Theatre; 6 pm: Federation of New India Recreation Club presents Nakshatra Sen’s Jai Ma Kali Boarding. Direction: Shyamal Chattopadhyay.
May 22 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Purba Paschim presents Tagore’s Chaturanga. Dramatised by Sekhar Samaddar. Edited and directed by Bratya Basu.
THEATRE FEST
May 22 at Academy of Fine Arts; May 23 - 25 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nandikar presents a children-friendly festival of six plays. May 22: Ghnyaghasur (a Nandikar production; Story: Upendrakishore Roychowdhury; Dir: Biswajit Ghosh Majumdar) and Tomaar Naam (a Nandikar production; Performance: Sohini Sengupta; Drama & Dir: Swatilekha Sengupta). May 23: Ghnyaghasur and Tomaar Naam. May 24: Satyi Rajputra (Produced by Nandikar’s Children Ensemble; Story: Sunil Ganguly; Music & Drama: Swatilekha Sengupta; Dir: Sohini Sengupta); Three Little Piglets (Produced by Tryst Theatre, Sweden; Performance: Gunilla) and The Frog Prince (Performnace: Ipek). May 25: Pil-Pil-Pil (Nandikar’s Children Ensemble production; Story: Satyajit Ray; Drama & direction: Susanta Mandal) and SMS-e-Eshu (a Guidance Academy production; Story: Rajesh Basu; Drama & direction: Anirban Roychowdhury).
PERFORMING ARTS
May 21 at Gorky Sadan; 6 pm: Presentation of Bengali folk songs, a tribute by Dohar. Presented as part of Manik Bandyopadhyay birth centenary celebration.
FILM FESTIVAL
Till May 25 at Purbashree, EZCC, Salt Lake: Cine Central, Calcutta, in collaboration with Nandan, EZCC, UNICEF and in associtaion with Rishra Municipality and Beleghata Education Aid Centre, presents 8th International Children’s Film Festival. Today: Bonkers (Netherlands) at 2 pm; Gine the Devil Its Due (Czech) at 4 pm; and Voltas Ticket (Netherlands) and Neel Akash (India) at 6 pm. Today at Labour Welfare Centre, Kankurgachi: Through Fire, Water and Brass Pipes (Russia) at 2 pm; Floris (Netherlands) at 4 pm; and Sonar Kella (India) at 6 pm. Today at Rishra Rabindra Bhavan: Sergent Pepper (Germany) at 2 pm; Kid’s in da Hood (Sweden) at 4 pm; and The Snow Queen (Russia) at 6 pm.
TALK
May 21 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Narendrananda will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga.
May 21 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6.15 pm: Swami Somatmananda will speak in Bengali on Sri Sri Mayer Katha.
May 21 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Buddhatmananda will speak in Bengali on Bani O Bichar.
BOOK LAUNCH
May 21 at Oxford Bookstore, 17 Park Street; 6 pm: Oxford Bookstore Calcutta and Ponytale Books present An Evening with Ghost with master storyteller Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay to mark the launch of an English translation of Mukhopadhyay’s The Ghost of Gosain Bagan. The book will be launched by litterateur Sunil Gangopadhyay and the translator, Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee, director, K.K. Birla Foundation. The launch will be followed by a reading session featuring the author and the translator.
SUMMER CAMP
Till May 30 at Kidz Konclave, 2/1A Keyatala Road; 9.30 am - 12.30 pm: A 12-day fiesta packed innovatively with fun, frolic and learning activities for children 2 yrs to 12 yrs.
EXHIBITION
Till May 31 at Cottage Emporium, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road: Central Cottage Industries Corporation of India Ltd, popularly known as Cottage, hosts Summer Cool, an indoor exhibition of cotton sarees, produced from masterweavers from different regions of our country.
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