Today marks World Theatre Day, which is celebrated every year on 27th March, commemorating the art practice and all that makes it what it is.

The day was first observed in 1969, by the International Theatre Institute. On this day, theatre is celebrated so as to promote it, and to increase the general public’s understanding of the importance of this art form, in society.

Theatre holds the power to entertain, teach, and change the way both the performers, and the audience frames their lives.

”It is our mission, as playwrights, the bearers of the torch of enlightenment, since the first appearance of the first actor on the first stage, to be at the forefront of confronting everything that is ugly, bloody, and inhuman. We confront it with everything that is beautiful, pure, and human,” Samiha Ayoub, a famous Egyptian actress, expresses in her statement for the International Theatre Institute.

The theme this year is ‘Theatre and a Culture of Peace’.

”The conflicts and tensions the world is witnessing exceeded the limits of logical perception and created, amidst this apparent convergence, a fundamental divergence that distances us from the true essence of humanity in its simplest form,” Ayoub expressed.

The theatre is a place to not only escape life but to simultaneously get in touch with it and the world, ”I am not exaggerating when I say that what we do on stage is the act of life itself and generating it from nothingness”.

Here are five upcoming theatre productions you don’t want to miss:

1. Fit-3PM: 31st March – 8th April

Produced and directed by Joseph Galea and Carlos Farrugia, will be performed at Spazju Kreattiv.