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| June 26, 2010 | Theatre festival at Shimla Gaiety Theatre | |
Shimla: The historic Gaiety theatre in Shimla is the venue of a three-day theatre festival, which began yesterday. The department of language and culture of Himachal government has organised
the festival. "Gaiety is a place of performing arts and plastic arts both, we
have to make it a place for these all activities and exhibition will be a part
of it, a contemporary exhibition, first day festival is a culture festival, a
belle of Rani Laxmi Bai and second day will be the folk dances and third day will
be the drama," said Prem Sharma, organiser of the festival Theatre artistes believe
that festival has provided a very good platform to the local professional and
non-professional artistes. "In between many times we got chances, I mean all the
student whether they are professionals, mature or not but they get good platform
here and we all appreciate this effort," said Poonam Sharma, a theatre artiste.
Around 92 students are participating in the festival. Gaiety theatre is known
internationally because famous Bollywood celebrities like Raj Kapoor, Balraj Sahini,
Prem Chopra, Anupam Kher has performed in this theatre. |
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