The World Theatre Day 2020
Happy World Theatre Day 2020: Who doesn’t love theatres.
It is said to be one of the oldest forms of entertainment in our history.
The observance of World Theatre Day (WTD) is a tribute to the age-old tradition of entertaining people and spreading social messages through art.
People across the world celebrate World Theatre Day with utmost respect and grandeur festivities.
If you are searching for information on World Theatre Day 2020, its date, history and significance, then you have come to the right place.
The first World Theatre Day was observed in 1962 by International Theatre Institute (ITI) in Helsinki, Finland.
World Theatre Day 2020, like every year, will be celebrated on March 27, which will fall on Friday this time around.
It was in 1961 that it was proposed at 9th World Congress of ITI, and eventually decided, that a World Theatre should be instituted.
Since then, the World Theatre Day is celebrated by ITI Centres and the entire theatre fraternity around the world.
The World Theatre Day comes as a day of recognition and celebration for millions of people who are involved in theatre-art.
Every year, the World Theatre Day is observed by ITI Centres, ITI Cooperating Members, theatre organisations and professionals, theatre universities, and people who love the field of theatre.
As we know that the theatre is a combination of various forms of fine arts that uses live performers, actors or actresses to present before a live.
audience about the real experience in a specific place or maybe on a stage.
Nowadays the importance of theatre is declining so this day is a wake-up call for governments, politicians, institutions, and people to recognise the value of theatre to the individual, people for economic growth as well.
Let us study about World Theatre Day, its history, events, celebrations, importance etc. through this article.
International Theatre Institute (ITI) initiated in 1961 to celebrate World Theatre Day across the world to value and importance of theatre.
On this day, ITI host a yearly message, spoken by a chosen famous theatre performer, to share their views about the art of theatre and its future. In 1962, the first message was spoken by Jean Cocteau in 1962.
Do you know that this message is translated into over 50 languages and printed in hundreds of newspapers.
Through several institutions, this message was broadcast to all corners of the world. ITI has more than 85 centres throughout the world; it also encourages colleges, schools, theatre professionals to celebrate this day.
He was born in 1947 in Spore, Kashmir. At the age of 1, he became a refugee when his family had to migrate to the newly created Pakistan after the 1948 war between India and Pakistan over the disputed state of Kashmir.
He did his Masters in Psychology from the Punjab University.
As a university student, he wrote his first play.
He became a dedicated playwright when he started contributing from his political exile in London, plays for Pakistan's dissident theatre group, Ajoka.
It was set up by Madeeha Gauhar, a pioneer theatre activist. He later married to her. Shahid Nadeem has written more than 50 plays in Punjabi and Urdu languages and various adaptations of Brecht's plays.
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