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Nov 11, 2015 News
The Preliminary Round of the National Drama Festival 2015 has commenced and 38 plays will be in the running for the finals which are slated for November 20.
The event is collaboration between the Ministry of Education’s Department of Culture, Youth and Sport, and Digicel Guyana.
This year’s Festival will see a mixture of experience – with the likes of Francis Quamina Farrier, award winners Colleen Humphrey, Kijana Lewis, Sheron Cadogan-Taylor and Mark Kazim – and newcomers from across the regions.
Strong competition is expected as popular theatre groups vie for attractive cash prizes and trophies.
So far 13 schools from various regions are registered to compete in their finals which will be held at the Theatre Guild from November 23 to 27.
This year’s festival has $6M up for grabs in the open, open short or one act, junior, debutante and secondary schools categories.
Prizes will be given out for best production, best new Guyanese play, best director, best costume, best set, best use of lights, best use of sound, best performing cast, best actor and best actress, among others.
The official opening ceremony is scheduled to be held at the National Cultural Centre on November 20, at 19:00 hrs.
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