Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 28 2009:
The 6th North East Children Theatre Festival which is being organised jointly by the National Institute of Performing Arts, New Delhi, United Artistes, Tejpur and Manipuri Theatre Academy, Imphal would begin here from tomorrow.
The festival will go on till January 31 .
Addressing a press conference in this connection at Manipur Press Club here today, Director of Manipuri Theatre Academy, Imphal S Biren explained that the festival is being organised with the main objective of providing a platform for the children to expose their latent talent as well as to inculcate the feeling of oneness among the children of different States and communities.
Apart from host Manipur, theatre groups of children from other States like Tripura, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland and West Bengal would be participated in the festival during which in all 11 plays would be shown, Biren informed.
The festival would be inaugurated at Rupmahal Theatre at 3 pm tomorrow and no ticket would be charged for watching the plays of the children, he added.