More than 3,000 performing artists from 16 countries, including India, would gather here to stage nearly 100 plays for two weeks next month on the occasion of India Theatre Olympiad-2014.
The Olympiad is being organised here annually for last 22 years without a break by the city-based Utkal Yuva Sanskrutika Sangha.
The fortnight-long theatre festival would begin from September 5 with the Kala Vikash Kendra (KVK) bring the venue for the dances, music, multilingual Indian plays in English, Hindi and regional languages.
“Performing artists from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Croatia, Indonesia, Iran, Egypt, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Sri lanka and Ukraine have confirmed their participation in the festival.” said eminent dramatist and Sangha general secretary Prof Kartik Chandra Rath.
He said veteran playwrights, directors, artists, classical and folk dance exponents, vocalists and musicians from across the country and abroad would perform and their performances would be keenly watched by critics and gurus accompanying them.
After the national festival on September 15, an International Theatre Festival would begin a day later and continue till September 20, Prof Rath informed.