Productions
JARA AGUN LAGAYE
It's a dark comedy play. Based on Max Frisch's German play, trasnlated by Nabarun Bhattacharya, edited and directed by Supratim Roy
KHOL DO
Based on Saadat Hasan Manto's story Gotroheen's first hindi play.
SIMANA PARAPAR
BABY K
FYATARUR KISSA 2.0
This play is sequel of Gotroheen (Dumdum)’s previous play Fyatarur Kissa.
ANGSHIK CHANDRAGRAHAN
A play based on short stories by Nabarun Bhattacharya
HATTOMALAR OPARE
A production by 10 days workshop.
Bhul Raasta
Playwright
Badal Sircar
Direction & Performance
Supratim Roy
Duration
45 minutes
1st Performance on 15th July, 2017 at Tripti Mitra Natyagriha
Bhul Raasta, a play by Badal Sircar, uses a popular folk form like Nautanki to narrate a story steeped in epic tradition, creating a conflict of form and content in presenting a critique of power and its multiple versions of glorifying narratives . The story is that of a prince's expedition in search of a rare fruit which can cure his mother's sickness. The expedition, which begins with numerous unmistakable markers of royal and divine glorification, goes wrong, resulting in the isolation of the prince from his company. This marks the beginning of a new journey for the prince as he goes astray, taking the "Bhul Raasta" or the "Wrong Path" to destiny. With this play, Sircar presents a scathing critique of power and its narratives that has dominated the history of the human race since time immemorial.
The Stranger
Novel by Albert Camus
PoemsJibanananda Das
Nabarun Bhattacharya
Arthur Rimbaud
Light Design
Soumen Chakraborty
Audio Projection
Anindya Nandy
Playwright, Set Ddesign, Music & Direction
Supratim Roy
Duration
1 hour 55 minutes (with 10 minutes interval)
1st Performance - 31st March, 2016 at RabindraSadan
Total no. of performance - 6*
Stranger in every way is a play where philosophy and dramatics intersects.philosophy which is influenced by firstly, existentialism and secondly by phenomenology. This is the only work which we can say a complete incarnation of the absurd. The stranger," who, in the days after his mother's death, goes swimming, takes a mistress, becomes involved with a disreputable neighbor, kills a Nepali for no good reason; is judged guilty for the wrong reasons and sentenced to death. Events and style are one in this play which unfolds in a series of monotonous moments of the sameintensity. Only in the scenes at the beach and in the last moments of the play as protagonist waits hisexecution is there any hint of fullness or communion.
Madan Tanti
Based on story by
Manik Bandyopadhyay
Direction - Supratim Roy
Duration
55 minutes
1st Performance - 2015
Total no. of performance - 7*
It is 1940s Bengal. A starving village of weavers going without work. Madan is the master weaver, a fine artist. Will he take the moneylender’s offer and weave cheap loincloth, or die a slow death? The night’s silence is broken by the sound of running loom from Madan’s hut. The villagers gather. Has Madan given in? Madan comes out. He did not betray his fellow villagers, he says. His legs had developed cramps from sitting idle for so many days, so he ran an empty loom all night. Madan did not betray his art either. There was a saying in the village ‘The day Madan will weave a loincloth’. An empty loom ran, no cheap stuff was made.
Fyant Fyant Snai Snai (Fyatarur Kissa)
Based on stories by
Nabarun Bhattacharya
Music -
SubhadeepGuha & Gandu Circus
Light Design -
Bablu Sarkar
Playwright & Direction
Supratim Roy
Duration
1 hour 20 minutes (no interval)
1st Performance - 2013-2014
Total no. of performance - 14*
Nabarun’s writings introduced a strange set of human beings to Bengali readers, called Fyataru, who are an underclass fond of sabotage and are capable of flying whenever they utter the mantra FyantFyantSnaiSnai. Fyatarurs’ targets are rich peoples, corrupted politicians and businessmen and also the hypocrite intellectuals. But their subversion is totally without bloodshed.
Pragoitihasik
Based on story by - Manik Bandyopadhyay
Poems -
Manik Bandyopadhyay
Jibanananda Das
Birendra Chattopadhyay
Sovan Bhattacharya
Playwright & Direction - Supratim Roy
Light Design - Bablu Sarkar
Duration
1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)
1st Performance - 06 November, 2011
Total no. of performance - 30
During an act of robbery, when the entire gang gets busted, gang leader Bhiku manages to escape, carrying grave injuries. Fighting for life ,Bhiku lands up in the abode of his old companion Prahlad, who sets up a shelter for Bhiku in the wilderness of the forest. After days of care and struggle, when Bhiku finally comes to life, he violates the sanctity of Prahlad’s household. Prahlad drives him out of his place. Bhiku retaliates by burning down Prahlad’s house. Carrying an impaired limb, Bhiku sets off for the city. He starts life afresh as a wretch, begging on the streets of the city. But here too, darkness follows as he falls for a fellow female destitute and driven by desire, commits a heinous murder.
Neelkantha Desh
*** BEST PLAYWIGHT AWARD 2011 *** by NIVA ARTS
Playwright - Supratim Roy
Music - Anindya Sundar Chakraborty & Bodhaditya Bandyopadhyay
Light Design - Bablu Sarkar
Direction - Supratim Roy
Duration
1 hour 40 minutes (no interval)
1st Performance –24 December, Sujata Sadan
Total no. of performance - 26
The dialectic between creation and consumption gains a sharp aspect when the perception of ‘desire’ turns into ‘lust’. As the ‘subject’ of creation becomes ‘object’ of ownership, the relation between the two factors indulges into newer contradictions. This allegorical play deals with the age-old dialectic between creative forces, symbolically and keeping social history in mind, represented by women; and the consumers represented by men, so far the leaders and owners of resource, women as well as champions of all destruction. While the culture of war, destruction and accelerating trend of consumption is very much in vogue, an alternative culture pre-dominated by creators, the women, soul of nature mother brings about a new way of protecting culture of creation.
* Financially supported by Ministry of Culture, Government of India
ASTAM GARBHO
Story Line - Sandip Bandyopadhyay
Playwright & Direction - Supratim Roy
Duration
25 minutes
1st Performance - January 2010
Total no. of performance - 72*
*ongoing production
PATABHUMI
(Adaptation of a French Street Drama)
Playwright & Direction - Supratim Roy
Duration
35 minutes
1st Performance - Kolkata NatyaMela 2009
Total no. of performance - 7*
RABINDRA NATIKA
Skits & Direction - Supratim Roy
Duration
40 minutes
1st Performance - May 2004, Muktadhara (Sinthee), Birla Academy
Total no. of performance - 22
BARNO BIPARJAY
Playwright
Mohit Chattopadhyay
Poems
Birendra Chattopadhyay
Utpal Kumar Basu
Rudra Md. Sahidullah
Direction
Supratim Roy
Duration
45 minutes
1st Performance - January 2008, Muktadhara (Sinthee) Total no. of performance - 11
BEEJ
Playwright - BadalSircar
Direction - Supratim Roy
Duration
35 minutes
1st Performance - 2006-2007, Muktadhara (Sinthee)
Total no. of performance - 27
