The National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (NANTAP) will host a contingent of theatre arts students from 33 universities in Nigeria from October 20-26 for a special edition of the annual Nigerian Universities Theatre Arts Festival (NUTAF).
The National Theatre will host this edition with support from organizations like MTNNG, Zmirage and Airriya.
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Aimed at enhancing talent and creativity among theatre arts students across the nation’s universities, the National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners (NANTAP) will collaborate with the Nigerian Universities Theatre Arts Students Association (NUTASA) and the Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists (SONTA).
This will be the first time that the age-long student theatre festival which debuted in 1981 at the University of Ibadan, will be hosted outside its traditional university hosting area.
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The last edition of the festival held in June 2018 at the Plateau State University, Bokkos, Plateau State.
President of NANTAP, Mr Israel Eboh, said that the association agreed to host this special NUTAF because the association aligns itself with the desire of the Board of Trustees of NUTAF to expose the students to a more professional environment of theatrical presentations particularly the technical aspects.
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Eboh also remarked that the use of the National Theatre would afford the festival, multiple events and performances space within the same venue.
He added the entire festival which is planned to host a series of workshops is designed to expose students to more high technology performance support facilities which, unfortunately, almost all theatre arts departments lack.
