{"id":54475,"date":"2013-03-12T20:48:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T00:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/?p=16331"},"modified":"2013-03-12T20:48:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T00:48:43","slug":"3rd-all-manipur-folk-drama-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2013\/03\/12\/3rd-all-manipur-folk-drama-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd All Manipur Folk Drama Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, March 12 NNN: The \u201c3rd All Manipur Folk Drama Festival 2013\u201d aimed at promoting Manipur\u2019s threatened art form \u2018dholak drama\u2019 will be held from March 15 at Manipur Dramatic Union hall, Imphal.<br \/>\nFolk dramas based on old literature and other stories that occurred in the remote past which are difficult to recollect have more or less lost their position in the state, MDU general secretary Thokchom Tangkeshwar told reporters at the union\u2019s office here on Tuesday.<br \/>\nIn Manipur, since the introduction of proscenium theatre (stage drama) in 1902, so many dramas were staged in Bengali and after translation of Bengali to Manipuri, he said.<br \/>\nHe said MDU is all set to organise the 8-day folk drama festival, informing that it would be opened by honouring noted playwright and theatre director Ratan Thiyam. Folk play \u201cKhoyon Tebi Teshwa\u201d will also be staged on the opening day of the festival, he added.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/3rd-all-manipur-folk-drama-festival\/\">http:\/\/manipur-mail.com\/3rd-all-manipur-folk-drama-festival\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, March 12 NNN: The \u201c3rd All Manipur Folk Drama Festival 2013\u201d aimed at promoting Manipur\u2019s threatened art form \u2018dholak drama\u2019 will be held from March 15 at Manipur Dramatic Union hall, Imphal. Folk dramas based on old literature and other stories that occurred in the remote past which are difficult to recollect have more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[985,4],"tags":[986,988],"class_list":["post-54475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manipur-mail","category-news","tag-manipur-mail-2","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}