The annual National Drama Festival (NDF) of Guyana is in progress at the National Cultural Centre, running every night at 7 o’clock until November 28. The Secondary Schools will compete on the stage of the Theatre Guild Playhouse over three mornings, from November 24 – 26 starting at 9.
It is expected that a national festival of this nature is showcasing the top of the line in Guyanese theatre for the audience to get sound entertainment as well as an instructive exhibition of the start of theatre in the nation. The NDF usually shows the current trends in drama so that it is not difficult to entertain a study of what dramatists are doing. This is more accommodating because the majority of the plays offered are new. Customarily, most entrants create new works which further demonstrate the contemporary trends.
This festival is run by the National School of Theatre Arts and Drama, in collaboration with the Unit of Allied Arts for the inter-schools section, both working on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Department of Culture in partnership with Digicel which has