An International Theatre and Drama Festival, first-ever not only in the Steel City but also in entire western Odisha, would be organised by Rourkela’s noted cultural organisation Spandan in collaboration with the Rourkela Steel Plant from December 20 to 29 at the Civic Centre here.
According to Spandan general secretary Dr Samar Mudali, since 1989 his organisation has been holding All India Multilingual Drama & Dance Festival. As this is the silver jubilee year, the festival has been planned as an international level one.
Five teams, two from Bangladesh and one each from Brazil, Sri lanka and Nepal, have given their consent to participate in this event. Besides, nine teams from Manipur, Assam, Jagdalpur, Nagpur, Mumbai, lucknow, Varanasi, Bhilai and four teams from Odisha would perform their plays, said Dr Mudali.
Apart from the plays, a workshop on play, an international seminar on theatre and various literary competitions would also be organised. In the last day’s morning, a theatre march would be held by all the artists of 18 participant teams.
like past nine years, this year also the All India Children’s Festival has begun on November 11 and would continue till November 14. Besides various competitions among schoolchildren, 19 teams are to perform short plays in the festival, added Mudali.