Mangaluru : A week-long theatre festival — Rangayatre, Natakotsava — wherein jail inmates will stage different plays, would be on at V.S. Acharya Auditorium, Vidyagiri, Moodbidri, from June 6 to June 11.

The festival is being organised by Alva’s Theatre Study Centre in association with Sankalpa Kala Sangha, Mysuru, and the Department of Prisons, Government of Karnataka.

Minister of State for Sports and Youth Empowerment K. Abhayachandra Jain will inaugurate the festival at 6.15 p.m. on Saturday, said a release.

Alva’s Education Foundation Chairman M. Mohan Alva, Additional Director General of Police and Inspector General of Prisons Kamal Panth and retired Inspector General of Police Gopal Hosur will be present.

About 50 jail inmate artists and theatre experts would stage three plays directed by Hulugappa Kattimani during the festival.

H.S. Shivaprkash’s Mara Nayaka would be staged on June 6 and 9; Late K.V. Subbanna’s Soole Sanyasi on June 7 and 11 and Jayanth Kaikini’s Jategiruvanu Chandira would be staged on June 8 and June 10.

The plays will be staged at 6.45 p.m. on these days and the entry is free.