India, March 26 -- Celebrating 100 years of theatre legends Ebrahim Alkazi and Badal Sircar, a three-day Natya Nirvan Festival will be organised at Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy (UPSNA) in Lucknow starting Friday, on the occasion of World Theatre Day.

On the concluding day of the festival, veteran writer Javed Siddiqui and veteran theatre personality Nadira Babbar will be felicitated with the lifetime achievement award The Thespian. Theatre director-actor Salim Arif will deliver a talk on Alkazi, while director Anil Ranjan Bhaumik will speak on Sircar.

Two plays will be staged every day, including Savita Rani's English play Notions in Between You & Me, and Shubham Tiwari's India After Bhagat Singh. On day two, the dastaangoi Hum D...