Short+Sweet Theatre Kolkata 2017

1.Name of Play: I am Mad

  Writer /Director: Sumit Binjola (West Bengal /India)

  Name of Theatre Company: Binjola Films

  Cast:Sundeep Binjola ( Manan), Surta Dipta Bhaumik( Dan), Sumit Binjola (Narayan)

  Synopsis or directors note.  Manan a common man pissed with life is about to commit suicide when two crazy men save him and transform him into a higher human being.

2.Name of Play: Ekti sohoj khuner golpo

  Writer: Precheta Gupta

  Director: Indudipa Sinha

  Cast: Trisha : Indudipa Sinha, Bilu : Krishnendu Adhikari, Nirmalya : Anupam Dhar 

  Synopsis: A psychological thriller which circles around the inter-relationship of a "bad girl" with her "good-boy" fiance and "bad-guy" husband. A story of love, lust, envy and revenge!!

3.Name of the Play: Chaho ya na Chaho

   Writer/ Director: Vijaylaxmi Kothari

   Theatre Group: Black Sheep

   Cast: Palash Chaturvedi (Person 3) Sulakshana Saha Chakroborty, Ritam Mondal

  Synopsis:                             

4.Name of Play: Dhuaan

  (Inspired by a story by Gulzar)

  Director: Livansh Adhikari

  Crew- Sandy Saha, Smriti Dhar, Palash Chaturvedi

  Name of Theatre Company: REVOLUTION

  Cast: Alkaria Hashmi ( Chaudrain), Rakesh Singh (Biru), Tej Singh Mandhan (Pandit),Gopi (Maulabi), Yuvraj Vyas (Kallu), Vivek Shaurya(Hira), Tanishk Misra (Panna), Balram Kundalia (Narrator), Livansh Adhikari(performer)

  Synopsis: We have forgotten humanity and kindness. The world is filled with selfish people who don't care for humsnity for sake of religion.

5.Name of Play: Altered Expectations

    Writer: Suzy Wilds (Sydney Australia)

    Director: Piali Ray

    Cast: Arya Gupta (Steven), Sarbani Ghosh (Christine)

    Synopsis:. Steven decides to separate from Christine as he finds no comfort from her to deal with the trauma of their son's near fatal accident. Christine copes with the vicissitudes of  life,alone.

6.Name of the play- Mehrum Zindagi

   Written and Directed by - Taufeeq Ahmed

   Music- Saustav Naskar

   Cast- Zahid Hossain, Anubhab Dutta,  Apratim Chatterjee and Taufeeq Ahmed 

Synopsis: 

7.Name of Play-The Biggest Burp

    Writer:

    Director : Jimish Thakkar

    Cast- Viha

  Synopsis: 

8.Name of Play-If it

Writer:

Director: Naireet Basak

Sound Design: Anna Lena Styra

Name of Theatre Company : Who Knows What

Cast: Sanmitra, Balaka, Tuhina Rohit Monish Priya Suvra Arka Abhishe

Synopsis: "If it" is a visual representation of the times of our self contradictions and how we merge with them. A self that is transforming every moment with new discoveries and of its own limits and dimensions. Thus, we never seize to dream.

1)Name of Play: " The Witch " ( Dainee )

Writer/Director:Prodip Chakraborty                               

Music Director: Manish Ghosh, production Manager: Naba Kumar Naskar, Make up & Costume: Gopal Mondal.Light : Dipak Kar. Stage Management : Niladri Sekhar Das & Rahuldeb Barman.

Presented by " Malancha Ayan ".

Cast:Bishal Bhattacharya (Villager), Avik Das (Kaka), Arpita Naskar (Thikhli), Sayan Barman (Mangru), Subhankar Chatterjee(Reporter), Kana Chakraborty (Mathli Buri), Chaitali Chakraborty (Apu), Naba Kumar Naskar (Police Officer).

Synopsis: The events that followed an investigation into the claims of a witch being kicked out from the village. 

2)Name of the Play: 1 2 3

Director: Rajesh Jaiswal

Writer: Vijaylaxmi Kothari 

Actors: Vikram Singh Negi ( Act 2 - Male, Act 3- Father) ,Tanya(Ani Das) (( Act 2- Female, Act 3-Mother)) ,Jesica Das (Act 1-Girl, Act 3- Sister), Nazish Akhtar (Act 1- Boy,  Act 3- Brother), Narrator: Rajesh Jaiswal/ Bharat Baid

Theatre Group:Black Sheep

Backstage help: Pallavi Lahiri

Synopsis: The three acts of this play are a light take on the changing social scenario and rising shallowness of people.

3) Name of Play: Sadako

Writer/ Director: Sukamal Maitra

Crew Members -Amit Biswas ( Music),Satyajit Halder( Light), Goutam Halder(Properties), Satarupa ( Make up)

Theatre Group- Kolkata Shilpobhumi

Cast- Stuti  (Sadako),Madhurima, Shramana, Muktadip, Koutilya, Vanshika. Prajjal,Satarupa, Goutam

Synopsis- A little girl is diagnosed of Leukemia due to nucleur explosion in Japan.She heard that she will be cured if she made 100 paper cranes. She died after making 1400.

4) Play's Name – The Saviour

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Director:

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5) Name of Play: Bibaho diaries

Writer: Debanjan chatterjee

Director:Shuvro shankar banerjee

Producers: subhobroto biswas ,priyanka dasgupta& rabiul islam

Cast: subhobroto biswas(arun), Priyanka Dasgupta(Molina), Rabiul Islam(Rintu), Shuvro Shankar Banerjee(Panchu)

Synopsis: 

6) Name of the play : Rosh-0-circle

Writer/ Director: Dibyendu Tarafder

Assisted in research: Godhuly Bose

Actors : Dibyendu Tarafder & Godhuly Bose

Synopsis : Rosogolla -No it's just not a sweet ,an identity or a diversion . It's a way of life harnessed by every bengali living in Bengal . Name , race, ethnicity doesn't  matters. What matters is the extreme happiness heavenly piece of art gives to our soul .Eat this play well . It also has juice of sweetness mixed with life in it .  

7)Name of Play: Saviour

Written by: Anubhav

Directed by: Anubhav and Suman

Cast; Supash Kumar, Aalia Burman, Mihira Burman and Arav lakhotia

Synopsis: A lazy boy is given a task and an ultimatum by his father, where he has to use his intelligence and has to work hard to prove himself. Whether or not he completes the task is what we have to see.

8) Name of Play- Kanoon

Writer/ Director - Navjot Singh

1) Name of Play- Screams and Whispers

Director: Rashmi Kotriwala ( Not competing for director)

Writer: Pete Malicki ( Australia)

Cast: Kripa

Synopsis: A teenager discovers a latent power - the ability to communicate telepathically with animals. Problem is, they don't speak English. They just fill your head with barks and meows and.. more

2) Name of play: Padmavati

Writer/ Director: Varsha Sheth

Cast: Kautilya A.V. (Padmavati), Swati Sharma (Interviewer), Prajjal Majumder (Secretary)

Synopsis: An unlikely candidate gives a job interview with confidence and conviction.

3) Name of Play: Baiju Bawra And Tansen

Writer: Sumit Binjola (West Bengal, India)

Director: Sundeep Binjola

Name of Theatre Company: Binjola Films

Cast: Tauseef Ahmed (Akbar), Kavita Gupta (Jodha), Nazish Akhtar (Birbal) , Vanshika Pasari (Kathakali), Saayak Chakraborty (Tansen), Sumit Binjola (Baiju Bawra) 

Synopsis:  Akbar announces a musical war between Baiju Bawra and Tansen to solve the problem of love triangle between Baiju Bawra, Tansen and Kathakali, as informed by Birbal.

4)Name of Play: Luxury Ride

Writer: Ravi Krishnan, Bangalore, India

Director: Shweta Gupta

Name of Theatre Company :Lithiumhead Productions

Cast: Vinod Anand(Rajat), Aarti Aney(Sita)

Synopsis or directors note: A bored to death couple find themselves in an unusual circumstance, that could just be the turn-on that they had been praying for.

5) Name of Play: Waiting 

Writer: Aamir Anjum ( Uttar Pradesh, India)

Director: Aamir Anjum 

Cast: Ayushi Thakur ( Sutradhaar), Shweta Chaudri ( Rinky), Sounak Kundu ( Santu) 

Synopsis: Through reflection in conversation between Rinky (Mortician) and her assistant Santu, the play talks about the mundane and inescapable waiting one has to go through in today's time.

6) Name of Play: The Writer

Writer: Chip Bolcik , California,USA

Director: Muktadeep Saha

Crew: Aratrick Bhadra, Upasana Dhar 

Cast: Ruchira Mukherjee ( Woman), Muktadeep Saha ( Man))

Synopsis: A couple suddenly learns that they are written characters, then struggle to understand how their feelings can belong to them, but their words belong to The Writer.

7) Name of play- Rape of a Rabbit called Rocky or All we need is time. 

Writer/ Director: Aniruddha Gupta

Cast:

Synopsis:

8) A play by Aman Jaiswal

1) Name of Play: Between Us, Mother & Daughter

Written and Directed by: Purva Grover, Dubai, UAE

Cast: Sherry Dang Briet & Mandeep Walia

Synopsis or directors note. :  A rape occurs every 22 minutes each day in India. When will we stop failing our daughters? A tale of faith and love, pain and shame.

2) Prince Charming’s Complaint

Writer- Bruce Kane, USA

Director:  Aaron Julius Punnen

Cast: Aaron Julius Punnen( Prince  Charming)

Synopsis- What could a Prince, who has everything in the world, have to complain about?

3)Name of Play: Fat Fit Fatter

Writer: Tandrima Ray Bhattacharya

Director: Tandrima Ray Bhattacharya

Name of Theatre group 

Presented by ZOAN

Cast: Adreeta Roshni Chatterjee(Woman 1)

Tandrima Ray Bhattacharya(Woman 2)

Synopsis or directors note Fat fit Fatter is  play which talks about two women of different age group who combat societal pressures ,when they face criticisms regarding their weight.

4) Name of play: Bhitu

Director: Priya Saha Roy

Writer: Priya Saha Roy

Crew: Ratna Saha Roy

Actor: Priya Saha Roy.

5) Name of the Play: The Moral Mess

Writer: Dakshin Adyanthaya (Mumbai, India)

Director: Dakshin Adyanthaya

Name of Theatre Company: Half Wise Being

Cast: Shreyas Ubale (Shree Hari Prasad Mukhasiyan, Sharma Uncle and Junior Smaran), Ushamrita Choudhury (Smaran's Mother), Dakshin Adyanthaya (Smaran)

Synopsis:  A story of a frustrated marketing professional, an astrologer who "rings" his bell and an uncle who clings on to his miseries. Will he survive The Moral Mess? 

6) Name of Play: Zelda 

Writer:Matt Enlow 

Director: 

Cast: Mandeep Walia

Synopsis:  An expression of love in the form of a song 

7) Name of Play: #Bangaliana

Writer: Ishani Ray

Director: Madhu Sriwastav

Cast: Aakash Patra (Husband), Prapty Chanda (Wife), Saikat Sett (Mr. Ray), Barnali Karmakar (Mrs Ray), Prithwis Halder( Mr. Ghosh), Madhu Sriwastav (Mrs. Ghosh)

Synopsis : The play is about the relationship between three Bengali couples-one young and two elderly couples. It’s a comic satire on the frivolity of relationships, how petty things bring out different aspects of human nature.

8) Name of Play: Get Ready to Play.....

Writer: (including State and Country)

Researched and written by a team from Mahadevi Birla World Academy Original team: Sakshi Chavan, Aditi Kumar, Kanika Khetan, Saloni Agarwal 

facilitated by Dana Roy

West Bengal, India

Director: Dana Roy
Cast: Environmentalist: Sanjana Jain

Politician: Anushma Sinha

Game Show Host / News Reporter: Gunjaari Banerjee 

Artist / Vegetable seller: Teesta Brahma

Synopsis or directors note: Kolkata ­ the third most populous metropolitan area in India.

Yet one of the cheapest cities to live in. Can we keep it that way? What exactly are we playing with? 

9)Name of the play -  ... & the 3rd Person

Cast - Manav Balmiki , Nilanjana Bala & Ranjan Giri

Director - Nilanjana Bala 

Concept - Nilanjana Bala

Ten Best Plays as chosen by the audience and judges from the plays presented in the preliminary Rounds on 7th-10th August will compete in The Gala Final on 12th Aug

List of Gala Finalists 

Sadako

Get Ready to play

Ekti Shohoj Khuner Golpo

The Saviour

Baiju Bawara and Tansen 

Screams and Whispers

I am Mad

Between us Mother and Daughter

Prince Charming's Complaint ( FD Choice)

The Moral Mess ( FD Choice)

Bhitu ( FD Choice)

Ten Best Plays as chosen by the audience and judges from the plays presented in the Preliminary Rounds on 7th-10th August will compete in The Gala Final.

 This show contains the same plays as the 4pm Matinee show. The end of the event will be the marked by the announcement of the winners and Awards will be given to the winners. 

Awards will be given out in the following categories-

t2 Best Overall Production ( Judges Choice)

Best Overall Production ( People's Choice)

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Director

Best Script

1.BEST PLAY T2 JUDGES' CHOICE- SCREAMS AND WHISPERS  

written by Pete Mallicki, cast Kripa Kotriwala

2.BEST PLAY RUNNERS-UP -BETWEEN US MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

written & directed by Purva Grover, cast Mandy Walia, Sherry Dang Briet

3. BEST PLAY PEOPLE'S CHOICE-

written by Anubhav, directed by Suman Sarawgi, cast- The Doodle Room children

4.BEST PEOPLE'S CHOICE PLAY RUNNERS UP -BAIJU BAWRA AND TANSEN

written & directed by Sundeep Binjola cast- Taufeeq Ahmed, Kavita Gupta, Sayak Chakraborty, Sumit Binjola, Nazish Akhtar, Vanshika Pasari

5.BEST ACTOR- AARON JULIUS PUNNEN ( Prince Charming's Complaint)

6. BEST ACTOR RUNNER UP- DAKSHIN ADYANTHYAY (The Moral Mess)

7.BEST ACTRESS-KRIPA KOTRIWALA (Screams and Whispers)

8. BEST ACTRESS RUNNERS-UP- SHERRY DANG BRIET(Between Us Mother and Daughter)

9. BEST SCRIPT- PURVA GROVER (Between Us Mother and Daughter)

10.BEST DIRECTOR- PURVA GROVER (Between Us Mother and Daughter)