Africa-Press – Ghana. The Ghana Theatre Festival 2025, captivated the public on Tuesday with a spectacular showcase of Ghana’s rich cultural heritage and diversity, rhythm, colour and tradition at the National Theatre in Accra.
The dazzling performing arts on the opening day are a tip of six-day cultural extravaganza, themed: “Showcasing the Rich Diversity of Ghanaian Culture through Performing Arts.”
The open day saw a packed audience of culture lovers, scholars, tourists, artists, dancers, playwrights, exhibitors, students and the diaspora who spontaneously cheered up the performances that reminiscent their past and roots.
Accra Academy Senior High School, who would be featuring in an SHS Drama Performances, Wednesday, September 24, showed their exploits in a gripping drama excerpt, exploring themes of indiscipline, peer pressure, child delinquency and its impacts, left the crowd buzzing with admiration.
The energy in the Theatre was also electric as drama groups from across the country, including Image Bureau Production led by George Quaye (Aboagye, a character of Taxi Driver fame) performed an excerpt from their play “Run for your Wife.”
Clad in their traditional regalia, their foot-stomping, drum-thundering display paid homage to the country’s diverse ethnic groups as the Ghana Dance Ensemble delivered a jaw-dropping performance that painted the stage with rhythm and grace.
The performance was followed by a stirring set from the National Symphony Orchestra, whose patriotic tunes brought nostalgic feelings and thunderous applause from an emotional audience.
As the event rounded off for the day, it was characterised by laughter to reflection, the plays offered a mirror to society through the lens of storytelling that had long defined Ghanaian oral traditions.
Madam Abla Dzifa Gomashie, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, urged the public to embrace theatre and the Ghana Theatre Festival 2025 as a huge platform to shape society from the ills, adding that it was a tool for development on the African continent and the world.
She said the growth of Ghana’s theatre arts placed an inherently task of development, promotion and preservation of culture on all industry players where Ghanaian songs, foods, dances, fashion, folktales, societal values and artifacts were promoted on community basis.
“The tourism sector currently ranks as the fourth highest foreign exchange earner for the country, generating over $4.8 billion in 2024. We are engaging the Regional Ministers and District Chief Executives to create tourism investments with their District Assembly Common Fund for our country’s development,” the Minister said.
Mr Henry Herbert Malm, Acting Executive Director, National Theatre, said the six days would be a master class of theatre ways and arts where they would engage each other on how to prosecute the reset agenda in the sector to guarantee success.
“We shall fashion out a way by which our industry could inculcate technology and balance the dynamism offered by culture for our collective good. We feel the effects of the reset agenda and we are all working to support it,” he said.
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