Ganja State Drama Theater will take part in the 2nd International Theater Festival named after Nodar Dumbadze in Georgia.

The festival will be held at the Chokhaturi Cultural Center from July 5 till July 14,  Ganja State Drama Theater reported.

This year's festival is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Nodar Dumbadze and the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Ozurgeti Theater.

Thirteen theatres will perform plays of Nodar Dumbadze.

Ganja State Drama Theater will stage the story Helados.

The festival will open with the performance "Sadness" by the actors of the Ozurgeti State Drama Theater. A. Tsutsunava.

The Nodar Dumbadze International Festival was founded in 2016 and is held every two years. The event is co-organized by Ozurgeti Theater, the City Hall of Ozurgeti and Chohatauri, as well as the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Georgia.

The festival aims to support theater art in the region and to resume the tradition of staging performances on Georgian literary works.

Nodar Dumbadze was a Georgian writer and one of the most popular authors in the late 20th-century Georgia.

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