NSD is Staging A Plethora Of Plays for theatre Lovers -10th Bharat Rang Mahotsav beginning On January 3. The National School of Drama (NSD) is staging a plethora of plays to celebrate its 50th anniversary this January.

A total of 76 productions, including several foreign plays, will be staged during the 17-day festival titled the “10th Bharat Rang Mahotsav.”

The annual theatre festival “Bharat Rang Mahotsav” organised by the National School of Drama this year will have a distinct foreign flavour.

Representation of contemporary international theatre will be showcased with plays from Poland, Switzerland, UK, Norway, China, Japan, Iran, Nepal,Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, with some of them seeking to explore new convergences between theatre and other performative art forms.

Also, festival directors from countries like Austria, Belgium, Pakistan and Croatia have been invited and will interact with the Indian theatre directors.

Afghanistan is participating for the first time with two productions.

The fortnight-long event will kick off with eminent Manipuri director and NSD alumni Ratan Thiyam’s ‘Prologue’ at the Capital’s Kamani Auditorium on Monday, Jan 3, 2008.

Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit will inaugurate the festival at Kamani auditorium in the presence of many distinguished theatre personalities including Ebrahim Alkazi, former director of NSD and architect of contemporary Indian theatre.

The festival which is being held in Delhi from January 3-20, 2008, will also have a parallel “Satellite Festival” in Mumbai from January 7. The Satellite Festival accompanying the 10th Bharat Rang Mahotsava will be held in Mumbai from the 6th to the 17th of January, 2008.
A total of 26 productions will also travel to Mumbai for the “Satellite Festival”.
The Satellite festival is being held with the collaboration of Maharashtra government.

In the international category, “Delirium”, a Swiss play and Pina Bausch’s latest work “Bamboo Blues” would be awaited.

Tanvir’s evergreen ‘Charandas Chor’ in a Sri Lankan production, Tendulkar’s ‘Ghansiram Kotwal’ in a Manipuri adaptation, a docu drama using rare archival footage and live acting on correspondence between Gandhi and Tagore, Gandhi and Nehru are some of the higlights.

The Manohar Singh and B V Karanth Smriti Puraskar, the two annual NSD awards for its alumnni, will be conferred at the inaugural function in Delhi.

In the last 50 years, 750 students have passed out of NSD. Out of which 400 of the alumni live and work here. Prominent of them like Naseeruddin Shah, Nadira Zaheer Babbar, Rohini Hattangadi, Atul Kulkarni, Jaydev Hattangadi will be present on the occasion.

The venues for the performances of different plays in Delhi will be –Kamani Auditorium, Sri Fort Auditorium, LTG Auditorium, Sri Ram Centre, and Abhimanch, Bahumukh and Sammukh at the NSD premises.

The venues for the Satellite Festival in Mumbai will be- the Nehru Centre and the Rabindra Natya Mandir.

Tickets available at NSD Ticket counter for Bharat Rang Mahotsav
Ticket price Rs 100, 50, 25, 10 per ticket
Note: Ticket price Rs 30 flat at Sammukh & Bahumukh
Available from 30 December 2007
between 11 am to 4 pm and one hour before the show at venue.

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