Last year, the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) held its first arts festival. The academy introduced a 10-day performing arts festival and encouraged young directors to use Napa’s in-house theatre as a platform to experiment. With sold-out shows, and excellent performances, the festival was a big success. This year, the festival is back and is being held from March 21 to April 9.
“As per our promise, we are back with a bigger and better performing arts festival this year,” said Napa’s artistic director Zain Ahmed in a press conference last week.
In preparation for the 20-day festival, Napa reached out to artists nationwide; thespians like choreographer-director Nida Butt and young Rouvan Silogix and Ali Junejo also joined the bandwagon. A total of seven plays and four music shows will be presented at the festival.
“The primary purpose of doing a festival like this is to provide a non-commercial environment for the people who do theatre for a living so that they can concentrate on the quality of the play rather than the quantity of people watching [them],” Ahmed added.
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