When theatre meets gastronomy

Earlier, young artistes of Whole 9 Yards brought their theatre to cafés. Taking a step ahead, the youngsters have now presented theatre in a gastropub, along with food and drinks. They have staged their successful play, Taramandal, at a city-based gastropub.Abhrajit Sen, the director of the play, said, “We are back after six months, with the 10th show of Taramandal. This time we have converted this into the culinary-theatre format — Food and Theatre — as they call it in Europe. This form of theatre aims to excite and entertain the diners with interactive theatre while they are enjoying food. I don’t think this style has ever been followed in Kolkata before.”Taramandal is a musical in two acts and ever since it was staged, the audience has appreciated it. It premiered at a Russian café in the Russian Centre for Science and Culture or Gorky Sadan. The musical has travelled to different venues of Kolkata like Goethe Institut/Max Muller Bhavan, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industries and Alliance Francaise du Bengale. The musical has been supported by popular individuals from the film fraternity, including Arindam Sil and Sreelekha Mitra. Written by playwright Neel Chaudhury, Abhrajit has directed it. It is a musical and it is composed by Adil Rashid, Dibyokamal Mitra and Meghtithi Banerjee.