India to host 8th Edition of Theatre Olympics in 2018
12th July, 2017Category:
The government has announced that 8th edition of the greatest carnival of Theatre in the World will take place in India for the first time ever from February 17 – April 08, 2018 simultaneously in various cities across the country. The Theatre Olympics, being held in India for the first time, is being organized by National School of Drama, under the aegis of Ministry of Culture. The country’s tryst with the biggest celebration of theater in the world will take place from February 17 until April 08, 2018 and will be held in 15 cities across India.
The Theatre Olympics was established in 1993 in Delphi, Greece, as the first international theater festival. With the tagline Crossing Millennia, this is an initiative to connect the cultural past with the present and future, bringing the richness and diversity of theater heritage to the experiments and research of contemporary theater. The first country to host the Theatre Olympics was Greece in 1995. 7th Theatre Olympics were held in Wroclaw, Poland. The Theatre Olympics is the foremost international theater festival, presenting the finest productions of well-known theater practitioners from around the world.
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