“Canfest-2025” i.e.,22nd National Theatre Festival (19th to 26th March 2025) 08 days festival along with Parallel Festival at another two places at Sanskruti Bhawan, IFFCO Township, Paradip and Utsav Auditorium, IOCL Township, Paradip Refinery are a conglomeration of ten or twelve different theatre troupes & repertoire of few selected Indian Directors from the country & state as well, to exhibit their forms & patterns.

This festival has been organised for the last Twenty-One years (i.e., from 2004) & the production of notable thespians of the country has already been invited to this platform. Some of them to cite are Late. K.N. Panikkar, Mr. M.K. Raina, Late Alakh Nandan, Late Mr. Bansi Kaul, Prof. Devendra Raj Ankur, Late Habib Tanvir, Mr. Rudra Prasad Sengupta, Mr. Bivas Chakraborty, Prof. (Mrs.) Tripurari Sharma, Mr Nadira Babar, Prof. Satyabrata Rout, Mr Ajay Malkani, and Mr Avtar Sahni had already staged their show in days.

“Canfest” is always being held with a theme every year. For example, in yesteryears, we have organized festivals with themes like “Women Directors’ Festival”, “Production of Young Directors”, and “The Places Not Touched and the People Not Called”. etc.

This year in “Canfest-2025, there will be the performance of (10) Fourteen plays in different Indian languages in the Main Festival along with Parallel Festival. Apart from that, discussions & seminars will be conducted within that period for interaction. On this occasion, we invite many eminent Theatre Directors, Playwrights, and designers to the inauguration & valedictory ceremony as guests of the festival. We also felicitate one senior theatre personality from the National Level and State level for his lifetime contribution to theatre. “Canfest-2025” is the biggest and rare kind of festival in terms of the number of days (08 days) as well as the theatre personalities being involved with their performances.