Drama
In early 2007 Chaudhuri's Bengali play Jaha Chai was performed in Calcutta by the Nandikar theatre group under the direction of Rudra Prasad Sengupta. This was part of a project on cultural mobility carried out by the scholar Stephen Greenblatt and the off-Broadway dramatist Charles L. Mee. Three playwrights in three different cultures (Bengal, Japan and Croatia) of whom Chaudhuri was one, were asked to write playscripts based upon the idea of the lost Shakespeare play Cardenio, in which it is thought that a newly married nobleman tests the loyalty of his wife by asking his best friend to attempt to seduce her. Chaudhuri Indianised the idea and set the story in modern Bengal, with Bengali and Adivasi characters, the lost play metamorphosing into a (fictional) hitherto unknown Tagore text.
He is married to Supriya Chaudhuri who also teaches at the Department of English, Jadavpur University.
Read more about this topic: Sukanta Chaudhuri
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