The BRICS Theatre Festival will take place in New Delhi from October 12 to 14. Nine countries, including India, Russia, Iran, and South Africa, will showcase their theatrical productions during this event, as confirmed by a senior official on Thursday.
India also proposed a voluntary artist registry to facilitate such exchanges. Russia will be represented by two theatre groups at the festival to be held a month after India hosted the BRICS Summit here on September 12-13. The culture ministry said it will organise the festival from October 12 to 14, themed on ‘Shared Stories, Shared Futures’. It will bring together over 100 theatre practitioners, scholars, students and cultural representatives from nine BRICS member and partner countries.
Addressing a press conference here, Union Culture Secretary Vivek Aggarwal said India will showcase two theatrical productions, while the participating countries will present productions reflecting their diverse languages, theatrical traditions and contemporary creative expressions. Apart from India, Russia, Iran, and South Africa, the festival will see participation from Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia, the culture ministry said. The festival will close with ‘Louha Purush’ a play on the life and legacy of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, according to the schedule. The culture secretary said that the festival builds on the Bhopal Declaration adopted at the BRICS Culture Ministers’ Meeting in August, which emphasised greater cultural cooperation, people-to-people exchanges and stronger network among artists and cultural practitioners. The BRICS Theatre Festival seeks to strengthen cultural cooperation and people-to-people connections among BRICS countries by bringing together artistes, theatre practitioners and audiences through a shared artistic platform, the ministry said.
