A nine-member jury board comprising eminent theatre personalities such as Shafi Ahmed, Kamaluddin Kabir, Haroon Ar Rashid Khan, Debaprosad Debnath, Hridi Huq, Fahmida Haq Koli, Sadhana Ahmed, Kha Ma Harun, and Nazrul Kabir were tasked to watch and evaluate 33 plays staged in 2023 for the award.
Popular theatre troupe Aarshinagar is all set to stage one of their crowd-favourite plays, “Siddhartha”. The play, which is the fourth production of the troupe, is adapted from German-Swiss writer and playwright Hermann Hesse’s novel by the same name.