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Review: JAAT UTPAAT at Veda Black Box
by Richa Das - April 05, 2024
'Jaat UtPaat' chronicles the story of three characters chasing each other in the maze of love in a world drenched in casteism. Their fate is tied to their birth and the story does not attempt to subvert it. Throughout my viewing of the production, I was unable to forget the archaic notions perpetuat...
Review: MAMMA MIA! at Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre
by Richa Das - December 21, 2023
It’s Christmas and Mumbai is lining up to watch the latest offering from Broadway at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre - MAMMA MIA! This musical promises to take us off our seats and right to Greece, where we witness a very British coterie discover love, friendship and family. ...
Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Culture Centre
by Richa Das - June 18, 2023
What did our critic think of THE SOUND OF MUSIC at NMACC?...
Review: THE DIVINE LEELA at Metamorphosis Theatre And Films
by Richa Das - June 14, 2023
What did our critic think of THE DIVINE LEELA at Metamorphosis Theatre And Films?...
Review: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) BY DAFNEY PRODUCTIONS
by Richa Das - May 25, 2023
What did our critic think of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) BY DAFNEY PRODUCTIONS at Dafney Productions?...
Review: MORNING STAR at St. Andrew's Centre For Philosophy & Performing Arts
by Richa Das - May 06, 2023
April of 2023 ended with four productions of Metamorphosis Theatre and Films' latest offering - 'Morning Star'. I got the opportunity to witness one of these productions on a houseful Sunday evening at the SAPP Auditorium in Mumbai....
Review: ADISHAKTI'S 'BHOOMI' at Prithvi Theatre
by Richa Das - November 14, 2022
This edition of Prithvi's theatre festival welcomed Adishakti's long-running play Bhoomi. The play is directed by Vinay Kumar, who also adapted the play from Sara Joseph's Malayalam play titled Bhoomirakshasam. The theatre troop arrived from Auroville, and a brief glimpse at their repertoire reveals...
Review: EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR AT Jamshed Bhabha Theatre, NCPA
by Richa Das - November 08, 2022
'Every Good Boy Deserves Favour' is a political satire that arrived on the NCPA stage for a rare performance. This spectacle was written by Tom Stoppard - the story of a political dissident in the Soviet Union. The play is accompanied by a 45-piece orchestra, performed by the Symphony Orchestra of I...
Review: THE DEVIL WEARS BATAA at NCPA
by Richa Das - October 31, 2022
A few days ago, I had the chance to catch a screening of 'The Devil Wears Bataa' at the NCPA. I had previously seen listings of the show and stopped myself from catching a production of the same....
Feature: FIRST ENCOUNTER - CLUB GUY & RONI AND NAVDHARA INDIA DANCE THEATRE at NCPA
by Richa Das - July 03, 2022
An eclectic group of dancers from both these groups have joined hands to put together a showcase at the NCPA in the coming week of July....
Past Shows
It is the story of a family where the father thinks his progenies are standing at the threshold of total ruination. They are wallowing in ...
Good News?!
5/1
Best friends and proud owners of 'Jo and Ro Ad Agency', Janak and Rohan are in deep debt as their ad agency was established with ...
Einstein
3/20 - 3/22/2015
Gabriel Emanuel's 'Einstein' directed by Ratna Pathak Shah and enacted by Naseeruddin Shah, is a 'line drawing' suggesting the spirit of the lovable figure, who ...
Ismat Aapa Ke Naam
3/19
Three stories in Urdu by the famed and much loved, not to say controversial writer Ismat Chughtai (1915-1999) are being staged by Motley. We prefer ...
A Walk In The Woods
3/17 - 3/18/2015
Two diplomats in the middle of peace talks take a private walk in the woods trying to achieve a breakthrough in the muddled negotiations between ...
Chariganga
12/29
The story is set by the Ganges tributary, Chariganga, in the dilapidated ancestral home of Gyanendra. Though once a reputed, globally well-known figure, Gyanendra now ...
Bhutnath
12/28
Bhutnath, a young employee of an office is very sincere, hardworking and disciplined. But all of a sudden, he refuses to work. Even when the ...
Shamshan Mahabharat
12/22
The play is not conceived about the established frame work of concepts of truth and lie. Rather the stress is more on the validity of ...
Suryasth
12/21
Suryasth is the story of a man who is on the threshold of his 40th birthday. His life is a storehouse of regrets. He regrets ...
Kacher Manush
12/15
Kacher Manush is a story told simply and differently, yet effectively. There is merit in its straightforwardness. The message that no person can be kept ...
Hum Mukhtar
12/1
This play is based on the life of Mukhtar Mai, who has been at the receiving end of the inhuman attitude of the society. It ...
Chandalika
11/30
Based on a story from a Buddhist Text, Tagore`s Chandalika bespeaks the anguish of a girl Prakriti whose consequences of birth compels her to live ...
Chukaenge? Nahin!
11/24
Ask a middle class person, what worries him the most these days, many of them would say `inflation`. The only thing which is growing faster ...
Court Martial
11/23
This play focuses on the weaknesses of the caste system that exists in our society. A man is put in the docks just because he ...
Ja Nei Bharatey
11/10
Beginning before the birth of Dhritarashtra and Pandu, Manoj Mitra`s Ja Nei Bharatey traces the cross currents of aims and desires which shape the time. ...
Anto-Aadi-Anto
10/6
The storyline of Anto-Aadi-Anto is simple which begins during early night and ends in early dawn in the lobby of a plush hotel in Darjeeling. ...
Ajantobas
10/5
Payal, an elderly woman lives all by herself in her small house surrounded by a small garden, somewhere in `Greater Kolkata`. When her maid questions ...
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