The Department of Culture of the Government of Sharjah issued Issue 54 of the Monthly Theater Magazine. The issue contained various articles, readings, dialogues, and letters that monitored and discussed theatrical activity in Sharjah and the world.
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Issue 54 of the monthly magazine “Theater”, issued by the Sharjah Department of Culture, included various articles, readings and dialogues, which monitored and discussed theatrical activity in Sharjah and the world.
The magazine published in its entry a file on Sharjah Theater Days on the occasion of its thirty-third session, which is organized in the period (2 – 9) March, which includes a report on the most prominent things that the new session will present, and testimonies from a number of participating directors about their performances that the public will witness on the stages of the Palace of Culture and the Sharjah Institute. For performing arts.
In the “Readings” section, Mahmoud Al-Halawani wrote about the aesthetics of directing performance in the play “Taknaza.. The Story of Tuda” by Moroccan director Amin Nassour, which was crowned with the “Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi Award for Best Arab Theatrical Work” in the past session of the Arab Theater Festival. Which was organized by the Arab Theater Authority in Baghdad last January, and in the same section, Heba Barakat wrote about the directorial approach to the open space in the show “Desert Hymn… Exiting to the Day,” which was presented by Egyptian director Intissar Abdel Fattah in the last session of the Sharjah Desert Theater Festival. Ibrahim Al-Husseini wrote about “The Blind Spot,” the latest work by the Egyptian director Ahmed Fouad, and Al-Hussam Mohieldin discussed the play “Enemy of the People” by the Lebanese director Lucien Bourjaili, and Mohamed Laziz wrote about “Mephisto,” the show recently presented by the Moroccan director Mohamed Al-Horr, and Samer Mohamed Ismail read the show. “The Executioner” by Emirati director Elham Mohammed.
In “Visions,” Said Bouaita wrote about theater and the question of reception, and Montajeb Saqr wrote about the concept of “theatrical readings.”
In “Hiwar,” the magazine published an interview conducted by Abdel Karim Al-Hajrawi with the Egyptian actor Youssef Ismail, in which he talked about his beginnings, the factors that influenced his career, and his experience in managing the National Theater.
In “Asfar,” Abdel Majeed Ahri recounted his visit to the Sharjah Desert Theater Festival last December, and in “Ofoq,” Awatef Al-Suwaidi interviewed the young Tunisian director Aws Ibrahim on the occasion of his winning the Najiba Hamrouni Award for Freedom of Expression, in the last session of the Carthage Theatrical Days.
In “Messages,” the magazine published a poll with a group of participants in the International Festival for Women Directors, which was recently organized in the city of Rabat, the Kingdom of Morocco, about the position of women in today’s theater.
This section included testimonies from a number of Omani artists about the artist Fakhriya Khamis winning the Sharjah Award for Arab Theatrical Creativity in its seventeenth session, a reading by Sabri Hafez in the theatrical experience of British director Alexander Zeldin, coverage of the participation of the Quarter Qarn Foundation in the last session of the Carthage Festival for Puppet Arts, and a reading by Yasmine Al-Farraj about the use of music in the performances of the last session of the Arab Theater Festival, which was organized by the Arab Theater Authority in the Iraqi capital.
