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The 16th International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFoK), organised by the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi connected the taxable ‘Voices of Silence,’ concluded successful Thrissur connected Sunday, erstwhile again underlining the city’s lasting arsenic Kerala’s taste capital.
Held from January 25 to February 1, the eight-day festival featured 47 performances of 22 plays, including 8 planetary productions and 14 nationalist plays. Theatre groups from crossed the satellite and India presented divers narratives, show styles and theatrical traditions, drafting enthusiastic assemblage passim the festival.
In summation to signifier performances, the festival offered a affluent scope of parallel events, including dialogues, sheet discussions, memorial sessions, documentary screenings, euphony programmes, and exhibitions of photographs, paintings and posters, adding aggregate layers to the festival experience.
Tribal creation forms were fixed peculiar prominence successful the taste programmes. A item of this year’s festival was the percussion ensemble presented by students of Cherur St. Joseph’s Special School astatine the ITFoK venue, which received lukewarm appreciation from the audience.
Student information
Another notable diagnostic was the information of students selected from each 14 districts of Kerala, who attended ITFoK to ticker and prosecute with theatre, reflecting the festival’s increasing outreach and acquisition focus.
Marking a historical archetypal successful ITFoK’s journey, the play Romeo and Juliet, staged astatine the festival, was besides performed earlier inmates astatine the Viyyur Central Jail, extending theatre beyond accepted spaces and reaffirming its societal relevance.
The valedictory league was held connected Sunday evening astatine the akademi courtyard and was inaugurated by festival curator Anamika Haksar. Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi chairperson Mattannur Sankarankutty presided implicit the function, portion Thrissur Corporation Mayor Niji Justin attended arsenic the main guest. Akademi vice-chairperson Pushpavathi P.R. besides addressed the gathering.
In her inaugural code astatine the valedictory session, Ms. Haksar said that creation is not simply a signifier of entertainment, but a almighty involution against injustice. She noted that ITFoK was calved not retired of comfort, but retired of resistance, and that the past 16 editions of the festival has reflected the warring tone of radical who garbage to beryllium silenced.
Next edition
Akademi caput Karivelloor Murali announced the dates for the adjacent variation of ITFoK. ITFoK 2027 volition beryllium held from January 24 to January 31.
The festival concluded with the staging of A Scream successful the Dark, a accumulation from Brazil, astatine the Actor Murali Theatre, bringing the curtain down connected an variation marked by diversity, inclusivity and taste depth.
