Short+Sweet Theatre Kolkata

WILDCARDS 

1st August 2015, 6 P.M. and 2nd August 2015, 6 P.M.

Venue- Padatik Little theatre II

(6/7 A.J.C.Bose Road,Kolkata)

1)Name of Play: While you were sleeping 

​Writer: Alex Broun (Sydney)

Director: Devisha Poddar

Cast: Sushobita Kar, Devisha Poddar, Indranil Dasgupta and Iman

Synopsis or directors note: Diya wakes up to her ex-boyfriend, boss's PA and her mother. But Diya did not call them, so who did?? A comedy that will leave you in splits!! 

2) Name of Play: State of Mind (Hindi)

Writer: Palash Chaturvedi (Kolkata)

Director: Palash Chaturvedi

Cast: Asgar Ali,Taufeeq Ahmed 

Synopsis or directors note: A beggar and an unemployed youth discuss life, violence, education and eventually realize the real meaning of poverty.

3) Name Of Play - Crosswords.

Writer :Varsha Jain (Patna)

Director :Pratigya Ghosh

Cast :Kartikey Tripathi, Apratim Chatterjee, Pallavi Lahiri,Kevin

Synopsis: Things get interesting and dangerous for an average, tired-of-each-other couple who seek entertainment in word games when each discovers the 'magical power' of crosswords!

4) Name of Play: Char Mombattiyan

Writer: Palash Chaturvedi and Aman Jaiswal 

Director: Aman Jaiswal

Cast: Nillanjana Bala, Ishika Gaur, Rahul Jaiswal, Rahamat Ali, Asgar Ali,Chirag, Ritam Mondal.

Synopsis or directors note. To believe on someting even if there is no hope or love...and to think that not every person is equal and same thinking in all the casts.

5) Name of Play: Krishna Ki Chetaavani

Writer: Adapted from Ramdhari Singh Dinkar's poetry by Palash Chaturvedi

Director: Milind Mehta

Cast: Parag Chaturvedi, Palash Chaturvedi

Synopsis or directors note: A being, limited to human capacities, with superhuman conviction, here is narrating to her friend about her relentless struggle between fantasy and reality, where the realms of both the field merges, forming a delicately intricate symphony, at times, yet  again, at other's a nightmare beyond redemption!

6) Name of Play: Working It Out 

 Concept: Sumit Roy

 Director: Sumit Roy

 Music : Divyaman Sahoo, Subhagatha (Rivu) Singha

Lyrics: Ronaan Roy 

Cast: Musician 1 : Divyaman Sahoo

       Musician 2 : Avril Damani

Synopsis or directors note: The Red Curtain has been doing a lot of Jazz Theatre. In Jazz Theatre, there is no script, as such. But there is a clear beginning, middle and end. This plot depicts the birth of a song. 

7) Name of Play-Psychopath

Writer-Pete Malicki (Sydney)

Director-Taufeeq Ahmed

Cast- Pratigya Ghosh

8) Special Performance by Underprivileged Children School

'Ekta' school for Underprivileged children supported by Rotary Club of Salt Lake Metropolitan (RCSLM)

9)Name of Play: Macbeth

Writer: Aniruddha Dasgupta (Adapted from William Shakespeare)

Director: Aniruddha Dasgupta

Cast: Aritra Dutta, Kunal Bhowmik, Jeet Sundar Chackroborty, Riddhibesh Bhattacharya, Kaveri Basu, Aindrilla DuttaChowdhury

Synopsis or director’s note: This is a uniquely animated adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth played in 10 minutes using Svetlana Biba’s techniques. The play is an attempt to blend new age digital, internet and cinematic visual aesthetics in a live dramatic performance. This is done not by the use of mixed media, but human bodies. The play is performed in a rectangular space measuring 6ftX4ft with the actors present in the space throughout the performance. Make-up and costumes are minimalistic. The quaint visual texture created is complemented by an innovative sound design using vocal orchestra only. The play is another one in the collection of 4th Bell Theatre’s ‘practically zero-budget, literally portable’ plays.

Top 20 

7th August 2015, 7 P.M. and 8th August, 7 P.M.

Venue: Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), The Rabindranath Tagore Centre.

(9A, Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Elgin, Kolkata, West Bengal 700071)

Group 1: 7th August@ 7 P.M.

1) Name of Play: You & I

Writer: Shuktara Lal

Director: Shuktara Lal 

Cast: Nivedita Bhattacharjee, Baisali Chatterjee Dutt 

Synopsis or director's note: There are several plays that have focused on the myriad forms of human relationships -- familial, romantic, professional, male friendships.  But what about a play about two female friends?  Given the dearth of plays in this area, I thought I would take the plunge.

2) Name of Play: Mukhota

Writer: Sundeep Binjola 

Director: Sundeep Binjola

Cast: Sanat Ray

Synopsis or directors note. "Mukhota' is a story of a person who pretends to be genuine, but when he encounters his inner-self, he discovers that his gen-unity is just a pretension.

3) Name of Play : "How to Drink a coffee"

Writer : Bala Kumaran (Chennai)

Director : Kartikey Tripathi

Cast Members : Palak Shah, Sushobhita Kar, Kartikey Tripathi & Milind Mehta.

Synopsis or Directors POV : Coffee is something everyone loves to drink now a days. Whether you are on a Date, as Refreshment, on Death, during Exams- in every stage of life, coffee is constant. Take it.. taunt, farce or comedy but we still need to know “How to drink a coffee.”

4) Name of Play – #Love​

Written and directed by –Naireet Basak

Cast: Syamantak Hazra, Madhurima Goswami, Kavita Gupta, Bibek Dey, Isheeta Chakravarty, Divya Bihani​​

5)Name of Play: HAVE MERCY, O WINGED CHARIOT!​

Writer: Renu Roy (Calcutta)

Director: Ashoke Viswanathan

Cast: Renu Roy (Indira Sen)

6) Name of Play: “A good deed for Mr. Stinky”​

Writer: Judith Anne Duncan (Sydney)

Director: Indudipa Sinha

Cast: Indudipa Sinha, Krishnendu Adhikari, Anindita Santra  

Synopsis or directors note: What is invisibility? What is connection? Is there any life after death? What is freedom after death?.... a journey of discovery through the lens of a strange relationship… 

7) Whose daughter is she anyway

Directed by –Jayant Kripalani

Cast-Nivedita Bhttacharjee, Gulan Kriplani, Shreyashi Mukherjee, Rana Basu Thakur, Sharad Ghai, Meet Tyagi, Sumit Lai Roy

8) Name of Play: Captain Everything

Writer :Pete Malicki (Sydney)

Director: Kabir Mansata

Cast: Dhruv Mukherji

Synopsis: Sometimes the world you create in your head is way more fun that the real world. ​

9) Name of Play: Shaishav -A confined Desire ​

Written and Directed by Sukamal Maitra

Theatre Group: Shilpobhumi

Synopsis: A voice against child labour.

10)  Name of Play: Day and Night ​

Writer: Ashoke Viswanathan

Director:  Keshav Roy

Theatre Group: Spandan

Cast: Ashoke Viswanathan

Synopsis or directors note: This is a dramatic monologue delivered by a person suffering from a nervous disorder bordering on the schizophrenic but what he says is a strange kind of political commentary that reflects the troubled times that we are passing through.                                                                     

11) Name of Play: Perfect Stillness

Writer: Jane Miller (Sydney)

Director: Rajat Ganguly

Any other crew member you would like acknowledged in the programme – Romit Ganguly as Set & Light Designer.

Cast: Aritra Dutta, Dipanwita Chatterjee, Romit Ganguly.

Top 20 (Group 2) -8th Aug 2015@ 7pm@ ICCR

1)Name of Play: Everything & Nothing

Written and Directed by Debosmita Roy Chowdhury 

Cast: Debosmita Roy Chowdhury, Anindita Santra

Synopsis or directors note : In my play I m describing a Woman who is dealing with self contradictions and trying to find the real entity of herself struggling between THE EVERYTHING & NOTHING within her.

2)Name of the Play: Tagged

Writer: Russell Bell (Dubai)

Director : Vijaylaxmi Kothari

Cast :  Pratigya Ghosh, Palash Chaturvedi, Milind Mehta

Synopsis: Today all our lives are at display on social media. This play is a humorous take by Russell Bell about the inconvenience that comes along with too much display of our personal lives and whereabouts on Facebook.  ​

3) Name of Play: Mohabbaton se anjaan

Writer: Sumit Binjola

Director: Sumit Binjola 

Name of Theatre Company (if any): Presented by Binjola Films

Cast: Ananya Deb (Paayal), Taufeek Ahmed (Meeth), Sumit Binjola (Pyar)

Synopsis or directors note. This is a short play based on the circle of love which people follow or call falling in love, starts with lots of hope but ends in despair, because hate comes with love too. This circle is ever repeated in the form of so called love.

4) Name of Play: One Two Three​​

Writer: Divya Mangwani

Director: Krishnendu Adhikari

Cast:Amrusha Palchowdhury,Dana Lai Roy, Indudipa Sinha 

Synopsis or directors note: Inconvenience…. norm….necessity… mandatory monogamy… financial security… social structure……..Various outlooks  into the multi-faceted institution called MARRIAGE…Different views from different  individuals searching the special person ....Are you the one?

5)Name of Play: MARK-SHEET-ISM​

Writer: Biswajit Das

Director: Biswajit Das

Name of Theatre Company (if any): Howrah Jonaki 

Cast: Ananya Bose(Student), Ankush Das(Student),Arunava Guha(Student), Nabamita(Student)Madhumita Sengupta(Teacher), Modhurima Goswami(Student), Pratap Kumar Mondal(Student), Saikat Sarkar(Student), Shreyan Dutta(Student), Supriyo Mitra(Student), Suvankar Mitra (Teacher)

Synopsis or directors note: Story of a failure 

6) Name of Play: WILLING SUSPENSION​

Written and Directed: Abhijit  Baruah

Cast: Abhijit Baruah (father)Abhimantu Baruah ( SON ) / Wife( TBA )

Synopsis or directors note: It’s a story about relationship between father and a rebel teen age son….with a twist.

7) Name of Play: EARTH AND THE MAN

Writer: A Theatrical Adaptation by Renu Roy from  an essay by G. Carlin

Director: Renu Roy

Light & Sound by Jayanta Roychowdhury

Name of Theatre Company: SPANDAN

Cast: Keshav Roy ​

  8) Name of Play: Because the World needs Unicorns ​

Writer: Cerise de Gelder

Director: Vaivaswat 'Meet' Tyagi

Cast: Noah - Syamantak Hazra, Unicorn - Kabir Mansata Dragon - Sumit Lai Roy, Unicorn - Kabir Mansata

Synopsis: We need some amount of myth, magic and mysticism in our lives but they often get stuck behind red tape as we struggle to survive and we end up leaving no space for such things as we move on. Cerise de Gelder uses the analogy of a Unicorn in the allegorical setting of Noah and his Ark to artfully demonstrate this gross injustice.

9)Name of Play: The Mirror​

Writer: VARSHA SHETH

Director: TRIGUNA SHANKAR

Cast   i) MIRROR – DOYEL ROYNANDI. ii) VIDYA – KOYEL ROYNANDI, iii) TRISHA – SHARBANI SAHA

Synopsis + Director’s Note: Sometimes we can’t express our feelings to anyone, not even to the dearest tour selves. Here is a girl facing herself on her marriage day.

10)Name of the Play: BAAT KUCHH DIL KI​

Writer:Vijaylaxmi Kothari

Director:Madhurima Goswami​

Cast:I) Madhurima Goswami as Rima,  Debesh Sarkar as Himself

Synopsis / Director’s Note: This is a monologue. Its actually ‘baat kuchh dil ki’, that every one has. This play is just to make people conscious about themselves

11) Name of Play: Afterwards

Writer: Alex Broun

Director: Syamantak Hazra

Any other crew member you would like acknowledged in the programme – Co-director Rumela Chandra

Cast: Ankita Dasgupta, Divya Thapliyal, Rumela Chandra, Saswati Sinha, Stuti Bathiyal.

Synopsis or directors note: Afterwards is a play, taken from the real life accounts of survivors of sexual abuse. The two fold trauma of the abuse and then the self-loath “afterwards”, along with the healing powers of sharing are explored.

GALA FINAL-9TH AUGUST

at Rabindranath Tagore Centre,

Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)

PREVIEW SHOW-3 P.M.

BEST TEN PLAYS FROM THE 3 GROUPS ABOVE GET SHORTLISTED TO PERFORM IN THE GALA FINAL AT 3 P.M.AND 7 PM FOLLOWED BY AWARDS CEREMONY.

FINAL RESULTS ARE OUT!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL !

BEST OVERALL PRODUCTION JUDGES' CHOICE : SHAISHAV-A CONFINED DESIRE 

RUNNER UP (tie between): EARTH AND THE MAN /CAPTAIN EVERYTHING

BEST OVERALL PRODUCTION PEOPLES'CHOICE: CAPTAIN EVERYTHING

RUNNER UP: HAVE MERCY O WINGED CHARIOT!

BEST ACTOR: DHRUV MUKHERJEE (CAPTAIN EVERYTHING)

RUNNER UP: KESHAV ROY(EARTH AND THE MAN)

BEST ACTRESS: DRISHTI MONDAL (SHAISHAV-A CONFINED DESIRE)

RUNNER UP: RENU ROY( HAVE MERCY O WINGED CHARIOT)

BEST DIRECTOR: SUKAMAL MAITRA (SHAISHAV- A CONFINED DESIRE)

RUNNER UP: ANIRUDDHA DASGUPTA (MACBETH)

BEST SCRIPT: SUKAMAL MAITRA(SHAISHAV-A CONFINED DESIRE)

RUNNER UP: RENU ROY(HAVE MERCY O WINGED CHARIOT!)