The National Festival of Egyptian Theater is organizing its sixteenth session, which bears the name of the artist, Adel Imam, from July 29 to August 14, with the participation of 37 performances.
“The session bears the name of Adel Imam. We do not honor him, but we celebrate him. We all celebrate him as playwrights and artists. All of Egypt celebrates him,” said the festival’s head, actor Mohamed Riyad, in a press conference on Saturday.
The participating performances are represented by independent theater groups, the private sector, state theaters, university theater, syndicate teams and civil society.
The performances are held free of charge at the Al-Salam, Al-Ghad, Al-Taliya, The Balloon, The Brides, Miami, Artistic Creativity Center, Hangars, Al-Samer, the National Theater and the Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts theater.
The course bears the name of the artist, Adel Imam
The jury is formed under the chairmanship of the artist, Ashraf Abdel Ghafour, and the membership of the actor, Magdy Kamel, and the director, Nader Salah El-Din, and the critic, Gerges Shoukry, and the musician, Tariq Mahran, and the interior designer, Mohamed Al-Gharbawi, and the professor at the Academy of Arts, Sahar Mahmoud Helmy.
In addition to theatrical performances, the festival organizes a theatrical composition competition for the first work, in which 186 texts compete.
This year, the festival honors seven actors, Salah Abdullah, Riyadh Al-Khouli, Khaled Al-Sawy, Ahmed Fouad Selim, Muhammad Mahmoud, Muhammad Abu Daoud, Rushdi Al-Shami, and Sami Abdel-Halim, as well as the decorator, Noha Barrada, and the writer, Muhammad Al-Sayed Eid.
It is noteworthy that the Egyptian National Theater Festival is organized annually by the Ministry of Culture.
