Theatre Formation Paribartak is a group theatre situated in the Howrah district of West Bengal, India. It produces short theatres, one-act plays and full-length plays in Bengali, English and Hindi. Its performances are held in prosceniums, intimate spaces, streets and in virtual platforms. It also organizes workshops for its own actors. Before May 2005, it was a unit of another organization that now goes under the name of Changers' Foundation Paribartak.

Plays

List of plays

The group produces mainly one-act Bengali plays. Its productions include:

Other productions

Non-participative development theatres produced by Theatre Formation Paribartak include Tia (for encouraging people to donate blood to blood banks) and Roopkatha (for promotion of the Child Helpline no. 1098). Theatre Formation Paribartak has also produced Machhi (মাছি) written by Mohit Chattopadhyay and two more street-theatres - Machine (written by Safdar Hashmi) and Jhilik (ঝিলিক) but it does not run these productions. The theatres Lakshmaner Shaktishel, Himmatwala, Ekti Uttar Adhunik Samajik Pala, Pratahkritya and Titumir were produced by an autonomous body of freelancing actors and technicians brought together by Theatre Formation Paribartak and facilitated by Joyraj Bhattacharjee.

Avoiding attribution

In the above list, if not otherwise mentioned, plays are written by members of Theatre Formation Paribartak, whose names are not generally disclosed by the organization. They also avoid mentioning the names of their directors who are also members of the group. Unlike many other theatre groups, it not been associated exclusively with a famous theatre personality or any one person. It also prefers to avoid mentioning the names of its performers and technicians.

Awards

The theatres of Theatre Formation Paribartak, since its inception in 2001, have won the following awards: