Two week-long Dhaka Metropolitan Theatre Festival 2025 to begin

The Dhaka Metropolitan Theatre Festival 2025 is going to be held with the aim of increasing the audience presence on the Dhaka stage and creating new audiences. The special attraction of this festival, which will start next Saturday (February 15), is 14 plays in one ticket. That is, the audience will be able to enjoy 14 plays for 14 consecutive days until February 28 with this same ticket.

On behalf of the board, Md. Aktaruzzaman confirmed this information. He said that this 'season ticket' will be available for just 1,000 taka. In addition, daily tickets will also be available for 500, 300 and 200 taka depending on the value.

The head of the Somy Theatre Group, Md. Aktaruzzaman, said that these plays of the first phase of the festival will be staged at the Dr. Neelima Ibrahim Auditorium of the Bangladesh Women's Association located in the capital's Drama Memorial (Bailey Road). The performances will start every evening at 7 pm.

The festival has been organized with the theme 'Let the stage courtyard be filled with the light of art / The audience is the family, the audience is the inspiration', said Md. Aktaruzzaman, a theatre artist.

He said that although everything has become normal since the pandemic, the performances of stage plays have not yet returned to normal. Although several new plays have come to the stage in the past two years, the number of viewers has not increased much, but rather the audience crisis has gradually increased. In the current situation of the country, the audience attendance at plays is not promising.

In such a situation, to bring dynamism to theater practice, to motivate theater groups and theater workers, and to increase the attendance of the audience, the 'Dhaka Metropolitan Theater Council' has been formed by the theater groups practicing theater in Dhaka. This festival will be celebrated on various stages with 85 plays from a total of 85 theater groups in phases. He also said that a press conference will be held on February 13 to highlight the details of the festival.

It is worth noting that the Dhaka Metropolitan Theater Council was recently formed with, Thandu Raihan as the convener and Kamal Ahmed as the secretary.