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Updated February 16th, 2020 at 18:39 IST

National Theatre festival begins in Kolkata 

Twenty-three theatre production units from across the country are participating in the 5th National Theatre Festival which began here on Sunday

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Twenty-three theatre production units from across the country are participating in the 5th National Theatre Festival which began here on Sunday.

The theatre festival, being organised by state theatre repertory Minerva Natya Sanskriti Charcha Kendra and West Bengal Information and Cultural Affairs department, will be held across three venues till February 23, theatre activist

Arpita Ghosh said on behalf of the organisers. On every day there will be one play staged at each of the three venues  Rabindra Sadan, Madhusudan Mancha and Minerva Theatre.

Besides acclaimed stage productions from Bengal, select plays from New Delhi, Assam, Maharashtra, Bihar, Manipur, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura and Jammu will stage play in the festival.

The festival will offer different genres of theatre from primitive folk theatre to urban plays, dance dramas, Ghosh said.

There will be no entry fee at the venues as the festival is aimed at providing the art loving people of the state the flavour of representative theatre productions in the country during recent times. 

 

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Published February 16th, 2020 at 18:38 IST

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