With the slogan “Prokiti o maanob hotyar biruddhe muktir utsab”(a liberating festival against the killings of nature and human), a theatre festival titled 'BotTola Rangamela 2016,' is set to be arranged again, two years after it was first launch.
The festival, which is second of it's kind, will honour thespian Aly Zaker, with a lifetime achievement award for his contribution in the field cinema.
International theatre troupes hailed from India and Iran, along with local ones from Jessore and Dhaka, will take part in the ten-days festival with their respective plays.
Apart from Aly Zaker, the festival will also honour eight theatre activists who have been leading to shape theatre activities outside the capital.
To be held at the Mahila Samity Auditorium in Baily Road, from December 1 to 10, the festival will be inaugurated with BotTola's new play - Crutch-er Colonel. Mohammad Ali Haider is directing the stage adaptation of eminent writer Shahaduz Zaman's novel of the same title. It is about the life of a Liberation War Hero and one of the masterminds of the November 7 coup Colonel Taher, who was executed in 1976.