Theatre fest in city from Nov 1

BY OUR STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI, Oct 12: The second season of the Guwahati Theatre Festival will be held from November 1 to 5 at Pragjyoti ITA, Machkhowa here.

The festival will present five world class globally acclaimed plays during the five-day festival. The festival will feature Quasar Thakore Padamsee’s Mother Courage and Her Children featuring veteran theatre persolity Arundhati g and others on the opening day.

The second day of the festival will have Broken Images featuring Shaba Azmi written by Girish Kard and directed by Alyquee Padamsee. The Festival has two plays from Shakespeare: What’s Done is Done (Macbeth) and Piya Behrupia (Twefth Night) from two different leading theatre production houses of Mumbai. Another exciting play is The Gentleman’s Club which is a take on legendary actor of yester years Shammi Kapoor’s colourful life during the 70s. “Guwahati Theatre Festival has become a landmark event after its first edition last year in the cultural landscape of the region. The purpose of this unique festival is to provide a platform in the region for a diverse range of world-class performing groups to showcase their performances amongst new audiences infusing freshness and vivacity,” said Sunit Jain, Festival Chairman.

 “Along with the plays, this festival also promises to provide learning opportunities to the local youth through workshops and interactions that have been planned with visiting experts who are globally acknowledged persolities in the theatre arts,” added Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri, the Festival Director.

The second edition of the festival will also feature performances by various college based theatre groups from the city who have been shortlisted after a round of nomitions and auditions. The tickets of the event will be available at leading restaurants and coffee shops in town as well as on bookmyshow.com.