Mushti - Jog - A sincere effort

It is quite heartening to see that the leading group theatres of Calcutta are vibrant with new ideas and experiments, they provide refined entertainment for the intelligentsia of the town.

Language of Love

It is no longer a secret that the translator’s art is pretty ardous as Betty Radice once pointed out) and involves drudgery, meticulous application, even exasperation at being tied down to another’s thought-process.

Shishir Kumar Bhaduri

The complex mosaic of modern Bengali theatre was first laid in 1940’s. Shishir Kumar had dominated Bengali theatre since the 1920’s.Shishir Kumar gave Bengali theatre a refinement and distinction, a classic grandeur, depth and sublimity.

Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)

The Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) production of Bijan Bhattacharya’s ‘Nabana’ in October 1944 cleared the path for the emergence of the ‘parallel’ or ‘other’ theatre

Bahurupee

In 1947 after the IPTA ceased to function, its members dispersed to provide greater stimulus for the non professional, socially aware theatre movement called Bahurupee.

Utpal Datta’s Little Theatre Group

Datta (1929) had been a member of Geoffrey Kendall’s Shakespeareana, the improbable troupe that survived in India solely by acting Shakespeare in the original. LTG made its debut with ‘Sangbandik’ an adaptation of Simonov’s , the Russian Question at the ITF pavilion

Others

Between the 1960’s and 1970’s many other groups came up like Theatre Center set up in 1954;’ Rupakar’ (1955)’ Shoubhanik’, ‘Sundaram’ and ‘Gandharba’ (1957), Theatre unit (1958), Bijan Bhatacharya’s Calcutta Theatre(1959), Nandikar and Mass Theatre (1960), Rupantri (1961), Theatre Workshop and Nakshatra (1966) and Chetana and Theatre commune(1972).