After a niche of three years, the much-awaited Repertwahr Pageant shall be back in the state capital this yr. The theatre, music and comedy extravaganza that was final held in the yr 2019 was later postponed resulting from pandemic.
The new addition to this yr’s occasion shall be a performance-oriented literature stage in addition to a craft bazaar and meals zone.
Initially held for seven days, the competition is making a comeback from December 15 to 17. A curtain raiser to the competition shall be held on September 2 and three with two performs devoted to legendary playwright, actor and director Habib Tanvir to rejoice his a hundredth beginning anniversary which falls on September 1.
“We began as a small occasion in 2009 to pay tribute to him and together with his grace it change into a competition the place we staged the nation’s largest performs after which added music, stand-up acts, meet-the-cast interplay and extra. In the course of the two-day curtain raiser occasion, epic performs Charandas Chor and Jin Lahore Nahin Vekhya Wo Janmya Hello Nahin shall be staged at Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy. Each performs had been initially tailored and directed by Habib sahib,” says Bhoopesh Nigam, organiser and co-founder.
The primary competition this yr will transfer from UPSNA and is anticipated to be held on the majestic La Martiniere Faculty. “We’re nonetheless curating the performs and are in the method of finishing the ultimate listing as we need to supply participating performs to the viewers who’ve excessive expectations from us. Earlier, we wished to current the perfect of performs from the ten seasons, however we had been unable to place them collectively, so we got here up with a new line-up and all huge manufacturing,” provides co-founder Priyanka Sarkar.
On the new add-on, Rai informs, “From common panel discussions, we may have three hours schedule which is able to embrace performance-oriented acts like storytelling, Hindi and Urdu poetry singing and talks. Apart from, this time we’re including meals and bazaar area to the competition.”
