Honorable
ceremony for the senior Mon drama performers
By Sike
(IMNA), Moulmein
Mon Drama performance groups
joined altogether and honored to the respected senior Mon drama leaders in
Ceremony in capital of
Nine Mon Drama performance
groups honored the elder performers in Mon community hall according the
Buddhism respecting of elderly people, invited 14 drama elderly performers from
Mon State and Karen State and made a devotional offering to them in the
ceremony, according to Nai Mon Oung
Kyaw Son, the leader of honoring committee, and the head of Mon Kyae Lai drama performance group.
In the ceremony, more than
two hundreds attended and “we honored it to express our gratitude to our
teachers and our senior drama performers,” he added.
“We invited dancers, drama
writers, composers and musical instrument players. We also invited an oldest
performer, Nai Shwe Khin, 98 years old from Zinkyait village, Paung Townsihp,” Nai Mon Oung Kyaw Son explained.
“It is the first time that
Mon drama performance groups honored altogether in showing respect of their
teachers and senior performers. In the
past, they separately did such a honor in their own ways
before they start their performance,” Nai Oung Kyaw Son added.
Mon drama performance groups
will start their performance in Mon language during performing from late of
September until June and they stop their performance in the rainy season.
Mon drama performance season
has about 250 days a year and “the number of day contracted by the Mon people
to performance had decreased because of Mon community could not effort to pay
to our Mon dramas as it is expensive,” said Nai Oung Kyaw Son.
“We understand to our
community but we have to use a very high expensive cost for electricity and
other equipments to have a complete night performances show,” he continued.
The famous drama performance
groups in Mon state are: Mon Chit Soe contracted for
179 nights, Mnoke Sorng for
160 nights, Mon Kyae Lai for 136 nights, Pakao Mitter for 120 nights and Khamon Sorng Oung
for 120 nights during last drama season.
In the coming season, two
new Mon drama performance groups are organized and one of Mon performance group
called Mon Htaw Kyaing will
change itself as drama performance group using Burmese language.
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