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The Revival of Mobile Theater in Lebanon: A Theater of Change

The emergence of modern technologies, electronic media, and social networking sites has led to the decline of the mobile theater until it has become somewhere in the past, had it not been for the fact that some theatrical groups, such as Al Shababy for Arts, Zoukak Troupe, Shagl Beit Theatre, and the Laban Troupe, have performed some mobile plays to revive it since 2012, as confirmed by Mont. Carlo International represented by Ben Nour Wardani Troupe.

Topics changed and moved towards lived stories that simulate the concerns of the Lebanese citizen.

Today, the mobile theater has become on the roofs of houses and squares. The head of the Tiro Association, Qasim Istanbuli, confirms that they have revived the traveling theater in a different way, in order to keep pace with renewal and change.

In Lebanon, as in all parts of the Arab world, the storyteller theater remained steadfast in the mobile theater, and neither modern technology nor globalization could achieve it.

Other theater groups turned towards this type of theater, which toured remote Lebanese regions, according to storyteller Rafi Al-Feghali.

The percentage of mobile theater performances is approximately 30 percent of other theatrical performances. The mobile theater was described by experts in psychology as the theater of change, as the young generation thirsts for the spirit of change.

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