Curtains come down on theatre festival

The seventh edition of the International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFoK) will conclude on Saturday.

More than 30 plays were staged across four venues on the Kerala Sangeetha Akademi campus over the last eight days. The festival bought together theatre activists, actors, directors, dancers, musicians and technicians from various countries including Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and India. They shared their existential and artistic concerns. The theme of this edition of festival was ‘Theatre of Resistance, Theatre of Today’.

A discussion held at the festival on Friday stressed the need to include more Malayalam plays in the festival.

Schedule for Saturday:

Radio Drama: Prakruthiyilekku Madanguka, 10 a.m.

Music for Theatre, 3 p.m. N.N. Pillai Tent theatre: A performance by music composer P.K. Sunil Kumar.

Jujubee: Perch Theatre, Chennai, 4 p.m.: The story revolves around the happenings in imaginary Rulampetta, which is ruled by a wicked king, Lightning.

History of Historians and Traitriot: Selluthurai Srikannan and Venuri Perera, Sri Lanka, 5 p.m.: It includes two performances. In the first, Selluthurai Srikannan explains life experiences of people living in Jaffna. Traitriot looks into the thin lines that differentiate “treachery, indiscipline and disobedience”.

I Hate Theatre, I Love Pornography: Zoukak Theatre Company, Lebanon: The play takes inspiration from Ibsen’s two plays ‘Enemy of the People’ and ‘Pillars of the Society’.

Kaumudi: Indian Ensemble Theatre, Bangalore, 8 p.m.: It is based on the ‘Geethopadesham’ between Krishna and Arjuna on a full moon day.

Theyyam - Puthiya Bhagavathi by Lakshmanan Peruvannan and team, 10 p.m.