Bengali Theatre - Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Shows cannot go smoothly without proper infrastructure and institutional support and that has become the biggest problem for theatre in Bangladesh. Dhaka, the capital city with over 90 million population, had only two small theatre halls. The construction of the National Theatre has not been completed in 10 years. In December 2003, the experimental theatre hall in the National Theatre complex opened and ITI Bangladesh Centre used it for their theatre festival. The 300 seat experimental theatre hall with all its modern facilities has not yet found regular use because of the absence of any user-friendly policy and subsidized rental fee for theatre groups.