Shift to social realism more pronounced in this year’s drama festival

Guyana’s fourth annual National Drama Festival closed last week after the performance of 27 plays in five categories. Tonight it holds its Awards Presentation at the National Cultural Centre from 7 pm, and this will be the crowning glory for all its achievements in 2014.

As would be expected, this festival gave a good indication of the current trends on the contemporary Guyanese stage,