About Department of Theatre and Performance Studies

In 1989, a subsidiary course on Theatre was instituted under the supervision of the Faculty of Arts, University of Dhaka. The Department of Theatre and Music started its journey as a full-fledged department on September 1, 1994 and debuted as a separate entity named Department of Theatre on July 1, 2009. Then on April 20, 2014, the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies was renamed. The transition from ‘Theatre’ to ‘Theatre and Performance Studies’ is not just about the desire to blindly follow the recent transformation of theatrical departments in western universities or to imitate modern fashion. On the contrary, in the field of education, the reality of shifting or ...

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