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Meta at 20: Mythologies, identities, rebellions
As the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards comes to Delhi, playwrights and directors see a good opportunity to showcase their work in the heart of the nation

Theatre is now Bengal’s cultural star. Not cinema or literature
Two Bengali plays bagged 9 of the 13 awards at the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards. It’s perhaps the state’s biggest haul at India’s most prestigious theatre awards.

Meta at 20: Mythologies, identities, rebellions
As the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards comes to Delhi, playwrights and directors see a good opportunity to showcase their work in the heart of the nation

Rangakarmee’s Chandaa Bedni Challenges Patriarchy And Caste
Alakhnandan’s original play Chandaa Bedni had its maiden stage performance in 1989 by the Bhopal-based Nat Bundele in Nagpur.

Theater festival in Siliguri
Theater Festival 2024 will be held in Siliguri from 13-17 December, mayor Gautam Deb announced on Monday.

Theatre artists observe silence
In an out-of-the-ordinary move, a theatre group’s cast and crew paid their respects to Tilottama, the rape-murder victim doctor from R G Kar hospital.

Tilottama was remembered by the crew, the audience before the premier of the Rangakarmee ‘s new play
At the beginning of the staging of the Rangakarmee’s latest play, Chanda Bedni, the audience and the crew of the play paid their respects by observing silence in memory of Tilottama.

Rangakarmee celebrates founder Usha Ganguli’s 79th birth anniversary with the staging of Chandaa Bedni
Members of the theatre group Rangakarmee to pay tribute to their founder Usha Ganguli on her 79th birth anniversary (August 20) with Alakhnandan’s play Chandaa Bedni.

The long fight for survival
Rangakarmee has bounced back with Abhi Raat Baaki Hai. This is heartening as the passing away of Usha Ganguli could have been a body blow to this leading Hindi theatre group from Calcutta. With Abhi Raat Baaki Hai, which premiered at the Academy of Fine Arts on January 16, Rangakarmee seems to have found its way ahead.

An act of resilience
Rangakarmee’s five-day Samanway 9 festival was a generic showcase with puppetry and solo acts sharing stage with standard plays

In search of the self
Rooted in a concern to respond to and protest against all the forces that inhibit the fulfilment of humanity, Rangakarmee, one of the country?s

Facets of womanhood
Trust Rangakarmee to keep exploring not only topical issues and subjects that are in the headlines at a given point of time but also keep evolving its methodology of performance and the infra-structural changes that an evolving presentation demands.

Theatre of life
Usha Ganguli, The recipient of the Telegraph She award in performing arts, takes t2 through the theatre of her life

Rangkarmee’s Evolving Studio Theatre
Atmaj, the first full-fledged production;

Rangkarmee’s Evolving Studio Theatre
Rangakarmee was founded more than four decades ago by Usha Ganguly who, it could be rightly said, founded the base of Hindi theatre in a predominantly Bengali cultural ambience at that time.

?Everyone is not going to sit silent…?
I joined Sangeet Kala Mandir and my first play was Mrichchakatikam. I attended rehearsals regularly but didn?t get the satisfaction of doing theatre.

stoop to conquer
The extraordinary life and works of Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto is the theme for Rangakarmee’s forthcoming production. Usha Ganguli (foreground) conducts a dress rehearsal for Badnam Manto, the first of a three-episode collage portraying Manto and his relationships with women.

A journey towards liberation
Ever since it was founded, Rangakarmee has been involved in upholding the rights of the deprived and downtrodden in its plays.

Calcutta Club, with The Telegraph, presented Hum Mukhtara
Moments from Hum Mukhtara, staged at Calcutta Club — Usha Ganguli (centre, in picture left) is the narrator, while Mrinmoyee Biswas (centre, in picture below) essays the role of Mukhtara.

Antar-Yatra
Usha Ganguli is one of India’s well-known theatre directors, who has been leading Rangakarmee for nearly 25 years.

THE BLURRING OF BOUNDARIES
Rangakarmee’s tribute to Manto terminates with Manto aur Manto (picture). The conceptualizer and director, Usha Ganguli, trisected her trilogy as follows: Badnam Manto on women, Sarhad Par Manto on Partition, and this one on “the human being”.

German tryst for Varanasi taleRangakarmee performs Kashinama: Global ticketSamuel Beckett: Our favourite
nCome July, a theatre group from town will get to rub shoulders with performers worldwide at a theatre gala in Germany. Rangakarmee, steered by Usha Ganguly, has been invited to stage Kashinama at the International Theatre Festival ?

DIFFERENT BATTLES
Festivals that unwittingly overlapped with International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month in March drew attention to the subject of women in some new plays.

Hum Mukhtara, A Play By Rangakarmee In Association With T2, Is A Rallying Cry For Women Sibendu Das
Na banengi hum mom ki battiyan, banenge hum jalti mashaalein… hum Mukhtara, sab Mukhtara…

Rangakarmee Plans Satire To Celebrate 40 Years
Forty years is time enough to change everything around us..

7 shades of celebrating women on stage
Damini of ‘Chaturanga’ Ela of ‘Char Adhyay’, Chitrangada of ‘Chitrangada’, Malati of ‘Sadharan Meye’, Chandara of ‘Shasti’, Kadambini of ‘Jibito O Mrito’ and Nandini of ‘Raktakarabi’ — all seven characters of Tagore will come together on January 16 as part of a unique production titled ‘Saptaparnee’.

Usha Ganguli: Indian theatre’s spirited doyenne
The formidable doyenne of the Kolkata stage, and indeed Indian theatre, Usha Ganguli has passed on, aged 75, in a year that marks five decades of her spirited engagement with the performing arts. In 1970, she debuted as the self-possessed courtesan Vasantsena in Mitti ki Gadi, an operatic Hindi adaptation of Śūdraka’s Mrichchhakatika with Kolkata’s Sangeet Kala Mandir.

The language of expression
Chat Medium no bar, stage no bar, issues no bar so it is theatre baar-baar for Usha Ganguly, finds Prabalika M. Borah.