{"id":12854,"date":"2025-06-07T01:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T01:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsd.gov.in\/delhi\/?page_id=12854"},"modified":"2025-06-07T01:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T01:46:25","slug":"nsd-repertory-summer-theatre-festival-2025-a-grand-opening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nsd.gov.in\/delhi\/index.php\/nsd-repertory-summer-theatre-festival-2025-a-grand-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"NSD Repertory Summer Theatre Festival 2025 \u2013 A Grand Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NSD Repertory Summer Theatre Festival 2025 \u2013 A Grand Opening!<\/p>\n<p>The National School of Drama expresses heartfelt gratitude to Hon\u2019ble Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Shri Vivek Agarwal, for inaugurating the festival as Chief Guest. His inspiring address at Abhimanch Auditorium energised the entire NSD fraternity.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe envision a collaborative effort between NSD and the Ministry to take theatre to every corner of India \u2014 and across Delhi,\u201d he said, also hinting at multi-location editions of future festivals and new regional centres for artist training.<\/p>\n<p>NSD Director Shri Chittaranjan Tripathy echoed this vision and lighting the lamp during the inaugural ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Opening night featured Thieves\u2019 Carnival \u2014 a witty Hindi adaptation of Jean Anouilh\u2019s classic, translated by V.K. Sharma and brought to life by Shri Avtar Sahni.<\/p>\n<p> Missed it? 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The National School of Drama expresses heartfelt gratitude to Hon\u2019ble Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Shri Vivek Agarwal, for inaugurating the festival as Chief Guest. His inspiring address at Abhimanch Auditorium energised the entire NSD fraternity. \u201cWe envision a collaborative effort between NSD and the Ministry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nsd.gov.in\/delhi\/index.php\/nsd-repertory-summer-theatre-festival-2025-a-grand-opening\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12854","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsd.gov.in\/delhi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsd.gov.in\/delhi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsd.gov.in\/delhi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsd.gov.in\/delhi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsd.gov.in\/delhi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsd.gov.in\/delhi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12855,"href":"https:\/\/nsd.gov.in\/delhi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12854\/revisions\/12855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsd.gov.in\/delhi\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}