Colombo International Theatre Festival kicks off

Bringing international theatre experience to local drama lovers Colombo International Theatre Festival will kick off from March 28 in Colombo and from April 1 in the Eastern University.

The one and only international theatre festival in Sri Lanka, CITF is organised by Inter Act Art. The 8-day festival showcases theatrical experiences from India, Austria, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Nepal and Sri Lanka, most of which are non-verbal or minimum verbal, modern productions. The festival also includes several side events like workshops and discussions.

Performances of 4 plays selected for development of the “Kavitha” programmes organized by the Ministry of higher Education willl be included in this year’s festival.

CITF is also to felicitate a group of persons who have rendered yeoman service to the theatre. The felicitation will be held on the opening day of the festival, March 27 which also falls the World Theatre Day at Mt. Lavinia Hotel.

Based on the sacrifice made towards the development of theatre provincially and those who created academics in the field of theatre such as M.D.Ranjith Silva The Last Colour Director - Shrikant Bhide Dhyaas- Pune Zheng He When the dragon Ships came Director - Karin Schäfer, Karin Schäfer Figuren Theatre Contrabas Director - Irina Perlova Azerbaijani State Theatre of the Young Spectators Cafila Director: Prof. Vidyanidhee Vanarase FLAME School of Performing Arts Miss Margarida’s Way Director: Motern Krogh (Norway) Mandala Theatre - Nepal Maestro Director: Mohammad Alotaibi Saudi Arabia Association for Culture and Arts, Alqassem Branch Knotted Ropes (Experimental Movement Theater) Director: M.Safeer FLAME School of Performing Arts & Inter Act Art Sri Lanka Disaster Market Director: Parakrama Niriella Janakaraliya – Theatre Of People (Galle) D.K.Artigala (Polonnaruwa), Priyankara Rathnayake (University of Kelaniya), Mangala Senanayake (University of Performing Arts), Saman Gamini (Kurunegala), Rev. Joshua (Jaffna), Amitha Rabbidigala (Kandy), Ruwanthie de Chickera (Colombo) and Tracy Holsinger(Colombo) would be honoured in the presence of destingushed chief guests including the Ambassadors and High Commissioners of various countries present at the festival.