Seven Decades of Art and Friendship
New Art Players was born in 1954, when a group of young high school leaving examinees in Guwahati, drawn together by their love of dramatics, staged a play — and founded an institution. Registered under the Societies’ Registration Act XXI of 1860 in April 1959, NAP opened its journey with Durgeswar Barthakur’s Assamese play Jibonor Pachoa.
In the decades since, the organisation has been a torchbearer in the socio-cultural life of Assam and the Northeast — pioneering drama festivals, chorus and children’s drama competitions, Borgeet and elocution contests, classical music and dance festivals, and public lectures, all in pursuit of the cultural revitalisation of society.
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Selected moments from our archives.
New Art Players Launches Its New Website
New Art Players is delighted to launch its new website — a home on the web for an institution that has been a home for…
Six Decades on Stage: The Complete Repertoire of New Art Players, 1954–2015
Theatre has been the beating heart of New Art Players since its founding production in 1954. Compiled during the club’s Diamond Jubilee Year, this is…
The Mohendra Kumar Barua Biennial Lecture: Three Decades of Ideas
Since 1988, New Art Players has organised a biennial lecture commemorating its founder President, Mohendra Kumar Barua, whose selfless service and able guidance across three…
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