PATH seminar on World Theater Day in Jamshedpur

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur, March 27: A seminar was organized at Dhatkidih Community on Sunday on the occasion of World Theatre Day by leading performing team, People’s Association for Theatre (PATH). Theatre fraternity members discussed various issues plaguing theatre groups and individuals by way of exorbitant hall charges and such halls now more interested in hosting marriage and other programmes at the cost of the very purposes for which such halls were created.

PATH, on the occasion of World Theatre Day, also celebrated the theatre unit’s 26^th Foundation Day. Md Nizam, founder and director of PATH along with the organization’s President, Govind Madhav Sharan shared their views on eliminating the contretemps of financial paucity and theatre presentations at a period when auditorium rentals had touched the ceiling. But there was a ray of hope when they observed that if government and corporate houses came to the fore to provide for auditoriums and performing avenues then theatre would not be relegated to the state of forced hibernation.

The who’s who of theatre was present and they too shared the disconcerting status that theatre was lamentably in. While Md Nizam anchored the programme, popular theatre person, Chhavi Das offered the vote of thanks. Veteran theatre artistes mingled with the next generation of the performing fraternity. Govind Sharan and Md Nizam were of the common opinion when they observed, “Theatre artistes are seasoned in the art of confronting challenges and surmounting them. The current phase does usher in pessimism but theatre workers should not lose heart. They have emerged victorious through trying times and will continue tom combat the odds to once again usher in better times.”