The theme of the year’s Festival aimed at celebrating innovation in theatre and dance -drama over the last 100 years. With the development of both technical and artistic aspects, each had served to enlarge and recreate the other; experiments in the spheres of lighting and sound etc., have broadened not only artistic possibilities in theatre itself, but also furthered and strengthened artistic vision all over the world.

It is this sense of vision that RPTW has endeavored to mature over the previous seven Festivals. Not only has local participation remained enthusiastic and committed to the cause of performing arts in the country, but also international participation has given audiences the opportunity to savour world class theatre. The underlying aim of the Festival is not to provide merely entertainment, but to seek to develop the aesthetic inclination of theare goers and educate it for better class of theatre.