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NSD Graduates While Staging A Play
NSD Graduates While Staging A Play

NSD To Make Singapore Debut With 3-Day Indian Theatre Festival

August 22, 2025

The National School of Drama (NSD) will make its Singapore debut next week as its Repertory Company stages a three-day Indian Theatre Festival from August 28 to 30  at the historic Capitol Theatre, commemorating 60 years of diplomatic relations between India and Singapore and the Repertory Company’s own 60th anniversary.

Organised by the High Commission of India in Singapore, the festival brings three acclaimed productions to local audiences over consecutive evenings, each presented with English subtitles to broaden access beyond Hindi-speaking theatre-goers.

The line-up opens on August 28 with Abhigyanashakuntalam, a lyrical retelling of K?lid?sa’s Sanskrit classic that has long been a touchstone of the subcontinent’s dramatic canon.

It is followed on August 29 by Babuji, a contemporary social drama exploring dignity, justice and the moral choices of everyday life.

The festival closes on August 30 with Tajmahal Ka Tender, a sharp political satire that imagines Emperor Shah Jahan grappling with modern bureaucracy to build the Taj Mahal—an audience favourite for its wit and timing.

Founded in 1959 and functioning under India’s Ministry of Culture, NSD is widely regarded as the country’s premier theatre-training institute.

Its Repertory Company—established in 1964—has served as NSD’s professional performing wing, nurturing generations of actors, directors and designers while touring a repertoire that spans classical Sanskrit theatre, modern Indian writing and international works.

This month’s Singapore showcase is part of a broader calendar of “SinGa60” cultural initiatives and bilateral engagements marking six decades since India and Singapore established formal diplomatic relations in 1965.

For the Repertory Company, the visit also caps an extended diamond-jubilee programme celebrating six decades of continuous production and experimentation on the Indian stage.

Tickets for the Indian Theatre Festival are available for all three evenings at the Capitol Theatre, 17 Stamford Road. Organisers anticipate strong demand for the limited run, given the festival’s dual significance as a cultural milestone and a first-ever Singapore outing for NSD’s repertory.

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