Realism and escapism An adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ celebrated play The Glass Menagerie, this evening’s production by Little Thespian attempts to universalise the lot of common people, cutting across the boundaries of space and time. Patjhad introduces us to a family that strikes us as only too familiar; Gayatri, a middle-aged mother, who lives in Darjeeling with her grown-up children, son Indivar and daughter Yamini. The family members have their individual quirks and idiosyncrasies. Gayatri lives in a world that oscillates between illusion and reality. The changeover between these two worlds is her only defence against the boredom and hopelessness of living. Caught up in a materialistic world, her son Indivar tries to escape to a world of dreams, imagination and excitement. His sister Yamini has imprisoned herself in her own falsely-secure world, which she should have escaped from for her own good. The play deals with multiple themes related to hope, expectation and disappointment, of imagination versus realism and of escapism from life’s duties and responsibilities. At the end of the play, Gayatri and Yamini are seen to recede and regress further into their unreal world while Indivar finally manages to break free from the shackles of his life within the family. Design and direction: S.M. Azhar Alam. Event: Play in Hindi, Patjhad, produced by Little Thespian When: Today at 7 pm Where: Padatik, 6/7 AJC Bose Road

Art

Till May 16 at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #24653212; 11 am - 7 pm: Waiting in the Wings — recent works of Mrinal Dey. Till May 16 at Karma Art Gallery, 505 Keyatala Road, #9830005441; 11 am - 7 pm: Art Perfection presents Drishti, a solo exhibition of painting and sculpture by Raj Rishi. May 17 - 22 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Indian Society of Oriental Art presents its annual exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Till May 17 at Nehru Children’s Museum: An exhibition of artworks, based on Tagore’s work, by the students of Nehru Children’s Museum. Till May 17 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture, 1st floor; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of artworks and photographs by Satyajit Ray, entitled Rayimages. Till May 17 at Museum & Art Gallery, The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Gol Park; 10.30 am - 1 pm & 2.30 pm - 6 pm: Glimpses of Ancient India — paintings by Prabhatmohan Bandyopadhyay (1904-1987). Till May 17 at Metropolitan Art Salon, S.N. Banerjee Road; 3 pm - 8 pm: A group exhibition of paintings by young artists Sachin Chandorkar, Sukanta Maurh, Karim Ali, Sawrat Saw, Sujoy Halder, Sonali Smith, Ashis Dutta and Nilabja Bhattacharya. Till May 17 at Birla Academy of Art & Culture; 4 pm - 8 pm: The first group exhibition of ARTery. Featuring paintings by Dr Jayanta Chaudhuri, Tapas Basu, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Siddhartha Karmakar and Subrata Kar. Till May 18 at The Promenade, Taj Bengal lounge; 10 am - 11 pm: An exhibition of artwork by Arunava Mondal. The artists will be painting live between 3 pm and 6 pm on most days. Till May 18 at Chemould Art Gallery, 12F Park Street; 2 pm - 7 pm: Nature and Flowers — a solo exhibition of paintings by Rajarshi Adhikary. Till May 20 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 8 pm: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts presents Somnath Hore: Bronzes, Drawings, Watercolours. Till May 20 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: Samaya presents its group exhibition of painting and sculpture. Featuring works by Kanti Choudhury, Tapan Chakraborty, Dipankar Pal, Sanjib Das, Papia Chakraborty, Prahlad Prasad, Muktiram Maiti, Aparna Biswas and Rathin Modak. Till May 23 at Experimenter, 2/1 Hindusthan Road, #98300 15854; 11 am - 8 pm (Monday to Saturday): Tell-Tale: Fiction, Falsehood & Fact 2 — contemporary artist’s narrative perspective on stories and storytellers. Featuring works by Amritah Sen, Anupam Chakraborty, Rajesh Deb, Sarnath Banerjee and Sujay Mukherjee. Curated by Dr Paula Sengupta. Till May 24 (except Monday) at Bose Pacia, Stephen Court, 18 Park Street, #40010148; 11 am - 7 pm: The Vase and The Lines — new works by Tarshito. Till May 25 at The Halo Heritage Art Gallery, 26 Ritchie Road, #9830050568; 3 pm - 8 pm: Heritage Happenings — an exhibition of sketches and watercolours by Samir Biswas.

TALK

May 16 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 6 pm: Swami Chidrupananda will speak in Bengali on Yuganayak Vivekananda. May 16 at Ramakrishna Mission Saradapitha, Belur Math; 6 pm: Swami Narendrananda will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Lilaprasanga. May 16 at Bidhannagar Ramakrishna Vivekananda Kendra, DD-44 Salt Lake; 7 pm: Preetindra Krishna Bhattacharya will speak on Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita. May 16 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7.10 pm: Discourse on Swami-Sishya Sambad by Swami Satprabhanandaji.

DRAMA

May 16 & 17 at G.D. Birla Sabhagar; 6.30 pm: Pandora’s Act presents Checkmate, a play in English inspired by the adventures of Byomkesh Bakshi. The cast includes Aporup Acharya, Daminee Mukherjee, Trina Nilina Banerjee, Senjuti Roy Mukherjee, Anubrata Basu and Bishwajit Chakraborty. Drama & direction: Srijit Mukherji. May 17 at Star Theatre; 10 am: Eso Natak Shikhi will stage Jantra-Na (No More Machines), written and directed by Dr Tapas Das. May 17 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm & 6.30 pm: Gandhar will stage Kachher Manush, with Debshankar Halder and Bijoylakshmi Barman in the lead. Dir: Gautam Haldar, filmmaker. May 17 at Sodpur Lok Sanskriti Bhavan; 6 pm: Sukchar Pancham Repertory Theatre will stage Tagore’s Bisarjan. Direction: Moloy Mitra. May 17 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Bohurupee will stage Fullaketur Pala. Direction: Kumar Roy. May 17 at Girish Mancha; 6.30 pm: Taki Natyam presents Good Morning Nishikanto. Drama and direction: Ramaprasad Banik.

EXHIBITION

Till May 17 at Starmark, 3 Lord Sinha Road; 11 am - 8.30 pm: Starmark, in association with India Post, is holding an exhibition of postage stamps and other memorabilia on cricket.

WORKSHOP

May 16 at Oxford Bookstore, Park Street; 11.30 am - 1 pm: Oxford Junior is organising Positive Minds in a Healthy Body, a workshop on the benefits of nutrition in nurturing the the healthy body of the little angels to combat the stress and hectic lifestyle. The workshop will consist of activities like quiz, drawing and an interactive session with children and parents. May 18 - 20 at 94 Ballygunge Place, 24613145, 24604245; 3 pm - 5 pm: Weavers Studio Centre for the Arts conducts a three-day workshop, Healing Touch through Music, by eminent sitarist Reena Shrivastava with the children of Hope Kolkata Foundation and Udayan Care, West Bengal. May 18 - 22 at B 184 Survey Park: Journey into Outer Space - Mad Science, a five-day camp in association with NASA for children (7 yrs - 12 yrs). For details, call #2416 4342, 98306 27921 or visit www.madscienceofkolkata.com May 19 - 22 at Starmark, G-202 City Centre, Salt Lake; 10.30 am - 12.30 pm: Starmark will hold craft workshops for children on clay modelling, paper art, sand art and patachitra (scroll painting). At 3 Lord Sinha Road, 10.30 am - 1 pm: Mad Science workshop for children. For more details and registration, call 99039 85097. May 21 - 23 (9.30 am - 11 am) & May 26 - 27 (12 noon - 2.30 pm) at the Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road: Creative Radio Jockey Workshop for Beginners (for the age group 17 yrs to 19 yrs) to be conducted by Dipanjan. To register, call 24556942/43. May 21 - 25 at the Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 6 pm: Graphic Novel Workshop with writer Rimi B. Chatterjee. To register, call 24556942/43.

FILM SHOW

May 16 & 17 at Planet M, 5 Elgin Road, beside Bhowanipore College; 4.30 pm: UTV World Movies Film Club hosts the screening of Priceless (May 16) and Offside (May 17).

QUIZ

May 24 at Jadavpur University, Engineering Science Building, 2nd floor, Physics room, Gate no. 3, behind Central Library; 9.30 am (reporting), 10 am - 11.30 am (quiz): The Karnataka Quiz Association (KQA) will hold Mahaquizzer, an all-India written quiz contest open to individual entrants. The quiz will be held simultaneously at 12 locations in India. Prizes will be awarded in each city to the best school entrant, the best college entrant, the best woman entrant and the person scoring the highest in that city. The title, Mahaquizzer, will go to the person scoring highest in the country. In this contest, participants are required to answer 150 questions in 90 minutes. Contact Rudradeep (9836344694) and mail Mahaquizzer@gmail.com to register.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to: Time out, The Telegraph,6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001; Fax: 2234-8244

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