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The eleven-day theatre festival, organised by the Theatre and Music Department of Dhaka University is drawing a large audience. The festival began on November 8 and will continue till November 18. Plays will start everyday at 6:00pm at the university’s TSC Auditorium.
   Today there will be a show of ‘The Stronger’ by Johan August Strindberg. The play is translated by Kazi Mohammad Idris and directed by Sharmin Akter. This will be followed by Anton Chekhov’s classic ‘The Bear’ translated by Sirajur Rahman and directed by Mahfuza Khan.
   George Barnard Shaw’s ‘How She Lied to Her Husband’, translated by Kabir Chowdhury and directed by Nusrat Jahan, will be staged on November 12, followed by Franz Kafka’s modernist masterpiece ‘The Metamorphosis’ also translated by Kabir Chowdhury and directed by Mohammad Abdul Kayum Bhuiyan.
   Jean Paul Sartre’s ‘Man without Shadows’ will be staged on November 13. Nineteenth century Bengali playwright Ramnarayan Tarkaratna’s ‘Chakhsudan’, directed by Subarna Huda will be staged on November 14. The play will be followed by a presentation of Harold Peter’s ‘The Room’. This play is translated by Shahman Maishan and directed by Rabbi Ibne Siddiquee.
   ‘Asheskritya’, directed and scripted by Shahman Maishan will be staged on November 15. It will be followed by Giris Karnad’s ‘Nagmandal’.
   Syed Shamsul Huq’s ‘Irsha’, directed by Rajib Chandra Das, will be staged on November 16. On November 17, the organisers will stage Samuel Beckett’s ‘Catastro-phe’, translated by Kabir Chow-dhury and directed by Rehmuma Hossain and Peter Hanke’s ‘Offending the Audience’ translated by Shashat Sarker and directed by Farzana Nipa on November 17.
   Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Raktakabari’, directed by Dr Mohammad Saiful Islam and Sudeep Chakroborthy will be staged on the concluding day on November 18.

The first Iranian sculpture expo opened Saturday at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF).
   Over 200 works by 150 artists are on display at the open space of the forum, the secretary of the expo Kurosh Golnari told the Persian service of ISNA.
   ‘The works are valued by experts and the prices vary from 2.5b rials (about 2.5m $) to 4m rials (about 4,000$). The tallest sculpture on display is about 2m and the shortest is about 30cm,’ he explained.
   The catalogues of the expo have been distributed to private collectors in neighbouring countries and so far, thirty items have been purchased, Golnari said adding, ‘Some have been selected by private collectors who have only seen the works in the catalogues.’
   ‘The collection on display has been selected from 600 works submitted to the secretariat and contains a unique selection,’ he added.
   ‘Works by master Mohsen Vaziri Moqaddam commands the highest price; ranging from 2.5b rials (about 2.5m $) to 800m rials (about 80,000 $), and 700m rials (about 70,000$),’ he noted.
   The first expo is organised for the economic development of the art of sculpture and to introduce the works by prominent artists to art collectors. It will continue until November 20 at the forum located on Musavi St., Taleqani Ave.