Macbeth (an undoing): ★★★★★ The Herald Review 2023 World Premiere
“A thrilling reimagining that lays bare the real power behind the blood-spattered throne.” Read more from The Herald here.
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Macbeth (an undoing): Financial Times Review 2024 London Premiere
“Nicole Cooper…is terrific: her Lady Macbeth is funny, sensual, proud and smart and Emmanuella Cole is great as a shrewd Lady Macduff. Their performances make the case that the Macbeth women have been seriously short-changed.” Read more from The Financial Times…
Macbeth (an undoing): “The Best of What’s Coming This Spring” –Observer
“Note the subtitle of this London import, an adaptation by Zinnie Harris. Shakespeare’s familiar lines for the ‘Scottish Play’ alternate with Harris’s contemporary dialogue, giving a feminist spin to the witchy tragedy of ambition, loyalty, and conscience from the POV…
“Public Obscenities” Review: The New Yorker
“As a writer, Chowdhury interweaves humor, allusion, gravity, and extended metaphor as if each quality were a musical line, making an integrated symphonic whole…As a director, his greatest talent is how he uses his spectacular cast. Each virtuoso is gorgeously…
“Public Obscenities” Review: New York Mag
“Exquisitely crafted…meticulously rendered middle-class Bengali home…dense and detailed…rich and strange. The play’s great poignancy lies in its restraint. The whole ensemble is marvelous.” – Sara Holdren Read more from New York Magazine here.
“Public Obscenities” Review: The Juggernaut
“Public Obscenities is the most Bengali play…heartwarming, unusual, and astounding.” – Snigdha Sur Read more from The Juggernaut here.
“Public Obscenities” Review: New York Times
“New York Times Critic’s Pick! A confident playwright…successfully writing a bilingual play…who with Public Obscenities, may have found himself on the brink of greatness…uniformly excellent cast…leaves the audience longing for even more.” – Juan A. Ramírez Read more from The New…
Public Obscenities: This Year’s Best Theatre- The New Yorker
“We’re lucky that Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s intricate bilingual drama is returning in 2024 for an encore run, at Theatre for a New Audience.” Read more from The New Yorker here.
Public Obscenities: 2024’s Most Anticipated Theater- New York Magazine
“After an acclaimed run at Soho Rep last spring, Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s play is back for a longer stint in Brooklyn. Told in English and Bangla, with supertitles about the stage, the play depicts a Bengali American Ph.D. student and…
Public Obscenities: Best in Arts & Culture- The Hollywood Reporter
10 Arts and Culture Favorites from 2023 “It’s rare that I can use a year-end list to endorse a theater show that people still have a chance to see. Shayok Misha’s revelatory and affectionate bilingual play Public Obscenities premiered at SoHo Rep…