Playwrights' workshop

Renowned dramatists at the concluding ceremony of the playwrights' workshop.

The opening ceremony took place at the Mahila Samity seminar room. Mamunur Rashid chaired the session and other renowned drama personalities like Sayeed Ahmed, Professor Momtaz Uddin Ahmed, Syed Shamsul Haq, Nasiruddin Yousuff, Selim Al Deen and Sara Zaker spoke on the occasion. The speakers were in favour of arranging such workshops and thanked Bengal Foundation for giving the logistic support to the organisation in every sector. Mamunur Rashid said that such workshops help the promising playwrights to enrich their knowledge by exchanging thoughts with the prominent writers.

The trainee playwrights attended a weeklong residential workshop at NIMCO (National Information and Mass Communication). There were lectures on the technique of writing, aestheticism, history of drama, dialogue diction, basic semantics and other things related to drama. Professor Sirajul Islam Chaudhury, Mustafa Monwar, Mamunur Rashid, Ramindu Majumdar, Nasiruddin Yousuff, Abdullah Al Mamun, Sayed Shamsul Haq, Selim Al Deen, Syed Manjurul Islam, M Hamid, Mannan Hira, Masum Reza and others took part as the instructors.

The concluding ceremony titled "Our stage drama and new generation" was held at NIMCO chaired by Syed Shamsul Haq.