New Delhi, March 3: From the issue of gender justice to the depiction of a slice of Indian history; from the genre of thriller to the supernatural; from bringing alive the dark realities of life to exposing our social hypocrisies – a variety of themes will be at play at a two-day Bengal Theatre Fest which started at Muktadhara Auditorium in the national capital today.
Four theatre groups from Delhi and one from Kolkata are participating in the festival, being organised by the West Bengal Information and Cultural Centre, under the Office of the Resident Commissioner, Government of West Bengal, New Delhi. This is the maiden theatre festival by WBICC after organizing several film festivals in recent years which were well-received by the culture connoisseurs of the city, especially in the Bengali community.
The festival was inaugurated this afternoon in the gracious presence of Shri Bhaskar Khulbe, Secretary to the Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri R. D. Meena, Officer on Special Duty and Principal Advisor (Public Relations) in the Office of the Resident Commissioner, and Dr Krishna Gupta, Principal Resident Commissioner, along with other senior officials of the Government of West Bengal.