To mark the 101st birth anniversary of the late Syed Badruddin Hossain, an eminent educationist, a language movement veteran, and lifetime chairman of Padatik Natya Sangsad (TSC), theatre troupe Padatik Natya Sangsad is organising a four-day theatre festival ‘Syed Badruddin Hossain Smriti Natyotsab O Smarak Sammanana’ at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
State Minister for Cultural Affairs Naheed Ezaher Khan will inaugurate the theatre festival as chief guest at National Theater Hall of BSA today, while distinguished playwright M Hamid, Mamunur Rashid, and director general of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Liaquat Ali Lucky will attend as special guests.
A discussion and the ‘Syed Badruddin Hossain Memorial Award’ ceremony will be followed by the inaugural event at the main auditorium of National Theatre Hall today. This year Abul Hayat and the late Mannan Hira will be bestowed with the Smarak Sammanona,
Eight theatre troupes from Bangladesh and India, including the host Padatik Nattya Sangsad (TSC) will participate at the festival. The other troupes are Nagorik Natya Sampradaya, Aranyak Natyadal, Theater Art Unit, Department of Drama and Dramatics-Jahangirnagar University, Batighar, Nabaras, Khokon Bayati, and his team, and Sajatashpur Rajasthan from Kolkata, India. These troupes will present two plays each in the main hall, experimental hall, and studio theatre hall of the National Theater.
The festival will also feature cultural programmes every evening from 5pm to 6:30pm at the premises of the National Theatre Hall. The festival will conclude on May 19.
Padatik Nattya Sangsad has been bestowing awards to esteemed individuals, over the span of 15 years, for their contributions to the advancement of theatre arts and their involvement in the group theatre movement in post-independence Bangladesh.
Recipients of this honour thus far include luminaries such as playwright Mamunur Rashid, Begum Shimul Yousuf, Md Hamid, Begum Ferdousi Mazumder, Ramendu Majumdar, Nasir Uddin Yousuff, Ataur Rahman, Keramat Mawla, Aly Zaker, late Syed Shamsul Huq, Professor MomtazUddin Ahmed, Asaduzzaman Noor, Dr Enamul Haque, Sara Zaker, S M Solaiman (Posthumous), Lucky Imam, Syed Jamil Ahmed, Selim Al Deen (Posthumous), Liaquat Ali Lucky, Golam Sarwar, Abu Mohammad Murtaish Kochi (Posthumous), Kazi Rafique, Khairul Alam Sobuj, Raisul Islam Asad, Bangajit Dutta (posthumously), Debaprasad Debnath, Masum Aziz (posthumously) and Tariq Anam Khan.
