Swapnasandhani’s interest in interpreting European classics and uncovering contemporary resonances in them were manifested, yet again, in Hamlet. Coming a decade after the cutting-edge treatment...

I admit to a certain trepidation at agreeing (when invited as chief guest) to have to sit through the premiere of Swapnasandhani’s production of Hamlet in a Bengali translation by Chaiti Mitra, ...

I wind my way through the rooms, charming in their clutter with musty stacks and rickety old chairs, I bump into Francis. The young Spaniard is a ‘tumbleweed’ who has made the store his ba...

Read between the lines Sir — The antitrust trial in the United States of America to block the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster has riveted the industry and raised larger ...

Students of Classes IX to XII dressed up characters from Shakespeare’s plays, presented monologues and enacted scenes ...

I could not send it — here it is again — Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, So fearful were they of infection. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare. The contagion has prevented Fri...

It was Neel Piritir Phul, a freewheeling adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Ebong Amra, that floored this reviewer. Instead of flirting with th...

Stop by the parks, meditate at Aurobindo Bhavan or indulge in club kachori from Arun Tea Stall...

It appears that Lear is already on his way towards that stage. Not long after the Fool’s prophecy, we see a kneeling Lear (Act 3, Scene 4) talking about the plight of the “naked wretches&r...

Cast anew Sir — Stories must be retold according to the changing needs of the time. The Royal Shakespeare Company has set its new production of Much Ado About Nothing in an Afro-futuristic worl...