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December 31, 2023
15:16 pm
Theater magazine cover
The new issue of “Theatre” magazine, issued by the Department of Culture in Sharjah, featured various reports, letters, articles and dialogues about the current “Father of Arts” locally and in the Arab world.
The magazine published in the “Introduction” section a report on the activities of the seventh session of the Sharjah Desert Theater Festival, which was organized last December, in addition to testimonies from a number of local artists about the experience of the Khor Fakkan Theater Festival on the occasion of the ongoing preparations to receive its ninth session on the twentieth of January.
In “Readings,” Khaled Raslan wrote about the play “Al-Namus,” the most recent work by Emirati director Muhammad Al-Amiri, which was recently presented. Al-Hussam Mohieddin discussed the performance of “Trees Dance Sometimes” by Syrian director Osama Halal, while Ikram Al-Zakali wrote about “The Song of the Good Man” by Iraqi director Muhannad. Karim, Jamal Ayyad read “Noun” by the Jordanian director Majd Al-Qasas, Anna Akash wrote about “The Hidden Magic of the Pillars of Society” by the Egyptian director Ahmed Al-Attar, Hossam Al-Masadi wrote about “Phobia” by the Tunisian director Moayad Ghazouani, and Sabri Hafez wrote about “Antigone in the Amazon” by the director. Swiss Milo Rao, and Ahmed Abdel Razzaq discussed the play “Balonko’s Wife” by Croatian director Eva Dragan.
In “Hiwar”, I published an interview conducted by Al-Sir Al-Sayyid with the Sudanese theater director and researcher Saad Youssef Obaid, in which he touched on the beginnings of his artistic experience and the past and present of theater in his country.
In “Visions,” Muhammad Al-Nawali wrote about the connection between “theater and knowledge,” and Ziad Adwan wrote under the title “Romeo and Juliet and the Snowflake Mentality.”
In “Sorouh,” Bassem Sadiq reviewed the history of the founding of the Balloon Theater in Cairo. In “Travels,” writer Sharif Al-Shafi’i recounted the experience of his visit to the Jerash Festival in Jordan three years ago. In “Follow-ups” we read short interviews with Emirati director Marwan Abdullah Saleh, Algerian actress Asma Sheikh, and Egyptian actress and director Rajwa Hamed. In the “Messages” section, the magazine published follow-ups on theatrical activity in Sharjah, Tunisia, Algeria, Cairo, Muscat, Meknes, and Sharm El-Sheikh.
