The 10th edition of the International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFoK), being organised by the Kerala Sangeeta Nataka Akademi, will begin on Saturday. In all, 33 plays will be staged in the coming 10 days.
The curtains will be up for the event with percussion ensembles by artists from Kerala Kalamandalam at the Bharat Murali auditorium of the Akademi. Minister for Education C. Ravindranath will inaugurate the festival. Minister for Agriculture V.S. Sunil Kumar will preside over the function. Film-theatre personality Seema Biswas will be the chief guest.
Palestine, Year Zero, directed by Israeli director Einat Weizman, will be the opening play. It seeks to portray the Nakba, the mass displacement, dispossession, and dispersal of Palestinians by Israel as an ongoing event.
It will be followed by Stories Forgotten to Tell, a performance by transsexual artistes. The play is the culmination of a seven-day workshop Rainbow Talks conducted as part of the ITFoK.
Bad City, Silence (Poland), Borderline (UK), Manus (Iran), Mundo Mozart (Chile), My Body Welsh (Wales), Palestine, Year Zero (Palestine), The Green Man (Spain), Voicelessness (Iran), Walk South Africa (South Africa), Womb of Fire (South Africa), The Malay Man and his Chinese Father (Singapore), Still in Paradise (Switzerland), Zig Zig (Egypt), The power of Lullaby (Georgia), and Love and Life (Sri Lanka) are the international plays to be staged at the festival.
The festival will conclude on January 29.
