GUWAHATI: A three-day theatre festival will be held in Guwahati from Friday, organisers said. The post-World War II era in Germany, the Covid-induced lockdown and functioning of the modern nuclear family are the themes of the three plays that would be showcased during the event.
"The fifth edition of the Guwahati Theatre Festival will have a diverse collection of contemporary plays exploring guilt, innocence, human and family relationships," Sidharth Bedi Varma, CEO of an English weekly that has been organising the festival since 2016, said.
Theatre stalwarts such as Shabana Azmi, Amol Palekar, Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Saurabh Shukla, Kalki Koelchin and Rajit Kapoor, among others, have enthralled the audience in the previous editions. Varma said the opening play will be 'Taking Sides', directed by Atul Kumar. Written by playwright Ronald Harwood, the courtroom drama explores the grey area of morality and the role of art and artist under a totalitarian regime in post-WW II Germany'.
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