Ongole to host national level drama festival from Jan 10

Ongole: As part of 20th anniversary celebrations, the NTR Kalaparishad has announced national-level drama festival from January 10 under the Bharateeyam Kalarchana 2019. Bharateeyam convener Edara Bharat said that they are inviting applications for drama festival from artistes across all states and from all languages in the country.

He said the drama can be performed in anything like poetry, prose, music, dance, social, historical, fiction, socio fantasy, mime, comedy, children, women, stage, arena or street performances and can have any duration and any number of scenes. He said they are offering honorarium to all performances based on the duration, style and variety of the stage art.

Apart from railway travel subsidies, he said the drama with duration between 25 to 40 minutes can be given a minimum honorarium of Rs 20,000 and maximum of Rs 42,000. Similarly, the performance with 2 hours above duration can be given an honorarium of Rs 35,000 minimum and maximum of Rs 60,000, he added. He also said that the writers of drama will be given 10 per cent from the minimum honorarium as a separate DD.