Dance dramas & musicals
Tagore's staged works — complete scripts with every song linked into the archive.
Musical plays (Geetinatya)
বাল্মীকিপ্রতিভা
Balmiki Pratibha
6 scenes 51 songs 1881
Tagore's first musical play: the dacoit chief Ratnakar, his cruelty pierced by pity for a captive girl, is forsaken by his band and mocked by the forest goddess — until Saraswati's grace transforms him into Valmiki, the first poet.
বসন্ত
Basanta
23 songs 1923
A festival play of spring: the King slips away from his council to join the Poet and the youths in welcoming Rituraj Basanta. Tagore dedicated it to Kazi Nazrul Islam, then in prison.
ভানুসিংহ ঠাকুরের পদাবলী
Bhanusingha Thakurer Padaboli
22 songs 1884
The Brajabuli song cycle young Tagore wrote under the Vaishnava pen-name 'Bhanusingha' — Radha's longing for Krishna in the manner of the old padavali poets. Begun at sixteen; published as a book in 1884.
কালমৃগয়া
Kaal Mrigaya
6 scenes 38 songs 1882
A musical play on the Ramayana hunt episode: King Dasharatha's sound-guided arrow, loosed at what he takes for a deer drinking in the dark, kills the blind hermit's only son.
মায়ার খেলা
Mayar Khela
7 scenes 80 songs 1888
A play woven almost wholly of songs: the Mayakumaris spin their game of illusion around Amar, Pramada and Shanta — love missed, love mocked, love found at last. Written for Sarala Ray's Sakhi Samiti.
Drama with songs (Natok)
Dance dramas (Nrityanatya)
চণ্ডালিকা
Chandalika
3 scenes 76 songs 1938
The dance-drama of Prakriti, an outcaste girl awakened to her own worth when the monk Ananda asks water at her well. Her mother's dark spell drags him back — until Prakriti, seeing his anguish, has it revoked.
চিত্রাঙ্গদা
Chitrangada
6 scenes 50 songs 1936
The dance-drama of the Manipur princess raised as a son: smitten by Arjun, Chitrangada begs the love-god Madana for a year of borrowed beauty — and at last wins Arjun as her own unadorned self. From the Mahabharata.
শ্যামা
Shyama
4 scenes 78 songs 1939
The dance-drama of the court dancer Shyama, who saves the foreign merchant Bajrasen from execution by letting the boy Uttiya die in his place — and learns that love bought with another's life cannot be forgiven. Based on the poem 'Parishodh'.