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Welcome to Colombo International Theatre Festival

The Colombo International Theatre Festival has initiated the first ever and only international theatre festival in the history of Sri Lankan theatre arena, as a bridge connected between Sri Lanka and global theatre. We maintained the CITF amidst countless complications, struggles and distresses from 2012 to 2019.

Unfortunately, due to the Corona epidemic in 2020/21 and the economic and political crisis which arose in the country in 2022, given us a hard impact though we wanted to hold the International Theatre Festival for the last three years, but due to the above factors that we could not control, we reluctantly had to put the theatre festival aside for a while.

But we have started the year 2023 with the determination that the CITF should be held some or rather at any level this year. We look forward to your support to make that expectation a reality.

Inter Act Art Institute is happy to announce the Call for Participation in the 11th “COLOMBO INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL – 2025 (CITF)”

(International Mono Drama Competition)

Will be held from
25th to 31st August in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
02nd to 04th September - Chilaw – Sri Lanka (Parallel Festival )
03rd to 07th September – Assam – India (Parallel Festival)

Dear all Global Theatre friends…
The Colombo International Theater Festival, which commenced in 2012 is approaching its successive 11th edition. CITF 2025 will feature Mono Drama from across the globe, formal and informal interactions between artists from Sri Lanka and abroad, towards a sustained effort in curating a festival with a purpose of bringing innovative performances to Sri Lanka.
Over 80 countries covering all continents 110 theatre groups and over 1200 artist and veterans have participated last 10 years including Sri Lankan theatre fraternity.

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10th “COLOMBO INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL – 2024 (CITF)”

Love and Lockdown – Sri Lanka – 2024

Love and solitude are two things we experience at different phases in life either willingly or unwillingly.

However, at present we experience the official solitude. We experience reality of being solitude, because of the global pandemic.

NIJINSKY – 2024

The one-man show NIJINSKY compresses essential moments from the 200 pages diary written by a artist caught between creation and despair, the famous dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky.
Born in Kiev in 1889, he was one of the most important artists of the 20th century and one of the world’s greatest
dancers,

A story for EURYDICE – 2024

Eurydice, in love with Orpheus, is dead. She ended up under a car because she didn’t pay attention to the road and she didn’t pay attention because she was trying to escape from her ex-boyfriend Aristeo, who was armed with a knife. Her entire life passes before her and in this dilated time she reconstructs her story through fragments of memory.

MERI MUNIYA – Flat form Performance-2024

This is the story of a poor farmer who works hard to get his daughter educated. He wants to make her a big officer. Muniya is the name of her daughter. Muniya ‘s mother dies at her birth.

ALA – 2024

Ala is an Iraqi girl who fled to Iran as a teenager. She meets a boy named Arash in Iran and marries him. With the start of the war between Iran and Iraq, Arash goes to war and works as a nurse there.