Coffin (picture), the adaptation of Synge’s drama about a community perpetually dealing with loss and mourning, posed a greater challenge. Translated and directed by Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay, the...

A fascinating aspect of Bengali-language theatre is the dogged survival of hundreds of theatre groups in urban, semi-urban and rural centres for decades. Remarkably tenacious in the face of tumultuous...

Theatre groups from Bangladesh — regular participants in international festivals across West Bengal — vanished owing to Covid-19- induced embargoes. But the Khardaha Artist Group hosted tw...

Krishnanagar, among the nerve centres of undivided Bengal, is slowly coming to terms with the changes that have swept over it. As far as performing arts is concerned, this town by the Ganges has tradi...

Since the controversy erupted over the design of the national emblem on top of the new Parliament building and the seemingly-menacing look of the lions caught the nation unawares, the situation seems ...

Barring a few, theatre groups in Calcutta have never been consistent in exploring the vast resources that are offered by folklore and indigenous performing arts. The overpowering influence of the colo...

The reputation of Chetla Krishti Sansad as the vanguard of the children’s theatre movement in downtown Calcutta was further consolidated with two new productions at Madhusudan Mancha on April 20...

Monsoon has just arrived. Santiniketan has woken up to the rain clouds drifting across the lush green landscape, the laterite beds and the riverside. Romance is in the air. The students of Sangit Bhav...

Buddhadev Das turns in a soulful portrayal of Balzac, paying attention to minute details of the characterisation as evinced in dropping a book on the floor with a plop of frustration or swirling a cha...

Kuntal Mukhopadhyay, a sociologist by profession and a playwright-director by passion, turned heads when Sanglap Kolkata produced Shudrayan in 1998. Taking a hint from Kamban’s Ramayana and...