A week-long drama festival started on Friday at the Studio Theatre Stage of Shabdaboli Group Theatre in Barisal city with a call to combat obscene culture.
The festival was inaugurated by Shohidul Alam, deputy commissioner of Barisal.
Titled as Shabdabolir Natya Milon-2013, the festival was organised by Shabdaboli Group Theatre on the occasion of the group’s 35th anniversary and was dedicated to late founding member, theatre organiser and fine-arts artist Enayet Hossain Milon.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony, the speakers expressed their solidarity with the movement initiated by the festival to fight against the invasion of obscene cultural trends.
They also urged the audience to be conscious and active in realising human rights, and in maintaining healthy native cultural trends and history.
Presided over by Syed Dulal, president of Shabdaboli Gourp Theatre and convener of the festival, the ceremony was addressed by Dev Prashad Devnath, secretary general of International Theatre Institute Bangladesh, Amaresh Chakraborty of Anik Theatre Kolkata, among others.
In the festival, eight dramas were staged by members of five group theatre teams. The dramas were “Protik” by Anik Theatre Kolkata; “Protikkha” and “Nil Moiurer Joubon” by Shabdaboli Group Theatre; “Kaljatra” and “Ma Abong Amra” by Barisal Shishu Theatre; “Pancha Nari Akkhyan” by Dhaka Theatre; “Paap Punyo” by Nandikar Chittagong and “Lakhai” by Oikik Theatre, Narayanganj.
The dramas will be staged at the Shabdaboli Studio Theatre on the first four days, and at Ashwini Kumar Hall on the last three days.
