The 2nd edition of G Plus Guwahati Theatre Festival concluded on Sunday with Atul Kumar’s play Piya Behrupiya, with brilliant performances by Mantra Mugdha, Girish Sharma, Trupti Khamkar, Dhwani Vij, Manasi Multani and others. The play was a nautanki adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous comedy Twelfth Night.
The festival, which started on 1st November, also featured plays like Mother Courage and Her Children, Broken Images, The Gentlemen’s Club aka Tape, and What’s Done is Done.
G Plus also conferred the ‘The Life in the Theatre Award 2017’ posthumously to Padma Shri Arun Sarma for his significant contributions to the Assamese theatre.
The festival was organised in association with the Apollo Hospitals Guwahati, supported by Ballantine’s, Servo from Indian Oil, Axis Bank, All Ladies League, Hastakshar, supported by The Assam Tribune and partnered by Radio Mirchi and Outreach Advertising.
The Guwahati Theatre Festival also featured workshops conducted by Quasar Thakore Padamsee, Bhavna Pani, Trupti Khamkar, Sheena Khalid and Puja Sarup, which were attended by over 100 school and college students, theatre enthusiasts and artistes.
The workshops were conducted in association with the Brahmaputra Foundation and supported by the North Eastern Council (NEC).