17/12/2025
.THE KENYA NATIONAL DRAMA FESTIVALS 2026
*KENYA NATIONAL DRAMA AND FILM FESTIVAL,*
*2026 Festival Theme:*
Bold Storytellers, Digital Stages: Driving Kenya’s Development Through Theatre and Film
CATEGORIES
1. pre-primary
* dramatised singing games
* Dramatised solo verse
* Dramatises choral verse.
2. Lower Primary
* Dramatises choral verse
* Dramatised solo verse
* Film for Early years
3. Primary schools
* play
* Cultural creative dance
* Modern creative dance
* Dramatised solo verse
* Dramatised choral verse
* Narrative
* Film
* Play in Kenyan sign language (SNE institutions)
* Dramatised dance for SNE institutions (mentally handicapped)
* Dramatised Dance for SNE (Physically handicapped)
* Dramatised Dance for Special needs institutions (visually inspired)
* Dramtised dance for SNe (Hearing impaired)
* Solo dance
* Liv TV broadcasting
4. Junior schools (jss)
* play
* Cultural creative dance
* Dramatised solo verse
* Dramatised solo verse in French
* Dramatised Choral verse
* Dramatises Choral verse in French
* The spoken word
* Narrative
* Film
* Play in KSL (special needs institutions)
* Dramatised dance for visually impaired (sne institutions)
* Dramatised dance for physically handicapped (sne institutions)
* Dramatised dance for hearing impaired (sne institutions)
* Stand-up comedy
* Solo dance
* Live Tv Broadcasting
Secondary
All the ones for Jss plus the following
* French play
* Mime
* Dramatised choral verse in German
5. Colleges (PTTCs, DTTCs, n TVETs)
* play
* CCD
* Modern dance
* Solo verse
* Choral verse
* Spoken word
* Narrative
* Film
* Play in KSl
* Dramatised dance (sne institutions)
* Comedy
* Solo dance
* Mime
6. Universities
* play
* CCD
* Modern dance
* Solo verse
* Choral verse
* Spoken word
* Narrative
* Film
* Mime
* comedy
* Solo dance
New signing
* Video song..which replaced dance
* No screen choral.
NEW RULES.
WE WILL USE CANVAS AND NOT BACKDROPS, ROSTRUMS AND TOO MUCH PROPS.
THERE WILL BE A COMMON STAGE
