One Hundred Years of Badal Sircar

Alliance française du Bengale & Culture Monks present Theatre Adda July 2025 session titled “One Hundred Years of Badal Sircar”.

We commemorate the birth anniversary of Badal Sircar through a lecture and a series of short performances reflecting on the essence of Badal Sircar’s theatre.

Date: July 15, 2025 from 6.30 pm – 9 pm
Place: Alliance française du Bengale, Park Mansions, Park Street, Kolkata.

Entry is free and open to all

Lecture by Manujendra Kundu

Manujendra Kundu is the founding editor of Springer’s book series titled Performance Studies & Cultural Discourse in South Asia. His recent edited volume titled Women Performers in Bengal and Bangladesh: Caught up in the Culture of South Asia (1795-2010s) came out from Oxford University Press (2023). His monograph titled So Near, Yet So Far: Badal Sircar’s Third Theatre came out from Oxford University Press in 2016. At present, he is working on the second revised edition of the book. Simultaneously, he is editing a volume tentatively titled Religion, Performances, and Democracy: Challenges to Cultural Freedom in South Asia (1940s-Present), which is under contract with Routledge, UK. The decade-long journalist, who worked for institutions like Anandabazar Patrika and Zee Media, did his PhD on the Third Theatre in Bengal. Manujendra, a former ICSSR fellow, is a playwright and cultural commentator. His areas of work involve Cultural Studies, Performance/Theatre Studies, Media Studies, Tagore Studies, and the intellectual transformations in India.

Short Performances

by Durgapur Bhimroti, Sumedha, Shatabdi, Janardan Ghosh, Pradip Chattopadhay, Ekaluviya, Bivas, Sudipto & others

About Theatre Adda

Theatre Adda are monthly sessions of experiments in performance and theatre which has been jointly organized by Alliance Française du Bengale & Culture Monks for the past 8 years.

The next session – August 2025 session of Theatre Adda will be on August 13,2025 and will be dedicated to Sri Aurobindo Ghosh.

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