A six-day theatre festival titled Magh Nishither Natok began yesterday at Theatre Institute in Chittagong.
Arranged by Ritubhittik Natyamela Parishad, the theatre festival will be featuring a reunion of theatre activists, exhibition, open discussion, staging of plays, conferring of Sukhendu Smriti Natyapadak and more.
This year’s Sukhendu Smriti Natyapadak went to theatre activists Moni Imam and Anayet Hossain.
Amidst much enthusiasm and interest, the festival was inaugurated by Liaquat Ali Lucky, director general of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
Apart from him, the inaugural session of the festival was attended, among others, by Dr Anupam Sen, vice-chancellor of Premier University and Somenath Ghosh, assistant high commissioner of India in Dhaka.
The festival has been dedicated to eminent theatre personality Mahbub Hasan.
The inaugural ceremony of the festival was followed by staging of Modhumala, the 40th production of Chittagong-based theatre troupe Tiryak.
As part of the ongoing festival, Tiryak brought the 94th show of its acclaimed production Modhumala which has been dramatised from National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s work with the same title.
Dramatised and directed by Ahmed Iqbal Haidar, the production is based on a local folk-tale.
The festival concludes on 13 December.
-With Daily Sun input
