Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government has a plan to construct an international standard theatre complex as there is no such hall in the country for producing good stage dramas.

‘I regret the absence of an international standard theatre complex having all modern facilities in Bangladesh,’ UNB quoted Sheikh Hasina as saying.   ‘…we want to construct one,’ she added.

The Prime Minister was speaking at the inaugural programme of newly constructed Bangladesh Mahila Samity Complex Building at city’s Bailey Road.

Sheikh Hasina said she had talked to the Finance Minister in this connection. ‘The Finance Minister is very much interested in it, and he said there’ll be no fund problem.’

The Prime Minister said she had chosen a place for the theatre hall.

She said the theatre hall could be built at the proposed convention centre just beside the Padma River on completion of the

Padma Bridge. ‘We’ll build a complex with that convention centre and the theatre hall can be built there.’

Talking about the theatre hall, the Prime Minister said its stage will move automatically and there will be no need to change the set repeatedly.

Hasina mentioned that whenever she went outside the country she tried to go to any theatre. ‘I saw helicopter landing on the stage, train passing through the stage. This is the age of digital technology…this is not a tough job to do, but in our country there is no theater like that.’

The Prime Minister said she saw modern theater halls in Trinidad Tobago. ‘And we won’t have such a hall…this cannot be…once we had some constrains, we’ve overcome those… gone are the days.’

Presided over by Social Welfare Secretary Chowdhury M Babul Hasan, the function was addressed, among others, by Bangladesh Mahila Samity President Sitara Ahsanullah and Samity general secretary Tania Bakht.