IMPHAL, March 12 NNN: The “3rd All Manipur Folk Drama Festival 2013” aimed at promoting Manipur’s threatened art form ‘dholak drama’ will be held from March 15 at Manipur Dramatic Union hall, Imphal.
Folk dramas based on old literature and other stories that occurred in the remote past which are difficult to recollect have more or less lost their position in the state, MDU general secretary Thokchom Tangkeshwar told reporters at the union’s office here on Tuesday.
In Manipur, since the introduction of proscenium theatre (stage drama) in 1902, so many dramas were staged in Bengali and after translation of Bengali to Manipuri, he said.
He said MDU is all set to organise the 8-day folk drama festival, informing that it would be opened by honouring noted playwright and theatre director Ratan Thiyam. Folk play “Khoyon Tebi Teshwa” will also be staged on the opening day of the festival, he added.
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