Nazerzadeh Kermani: Theater to Prevent & Reduce Social Upheavals

Mahdi Shafiee, director general of Dramatic Arts Center, and a group of artists attended the ceremony, Iran Theater reported.

Davoud Namvar, director of Arghanoun Mansion, started the ceremony by thanking the artists, saying that he had always been a student of Farhad Nazerzadeh Kermani and had learned from him to exert efforts to improve culture in this land. He said that in this line, the mansion was launched to have a civilized city, adding that the mansion had added a new theater hall with 133 seats.

“We have big thought and are set to established a specialized library of performing arts with the books dedicated by Farhad Nazerzadeh Kermani,” Namvar said, adding that director general of Dramatic Arts Center had also promised to gift the mansion some books.  

Shafiee also said that by Farhad Nazerzadeh Kermani had taught many theater figures, reminding one of his comments that encouraged that theater should broaden the circle of its audience and families must get familiar with it.

Farhad Nazerzadeh Kermani said that he had one daughter but many academic children and “I do not suppose any father has 2,000 or 3,000 children as I have and Davoud Namvar is one of my children whom I think can do many positive moves for the future of the country’s theater”.

He stressed that the government must limit its intervention in theater. “If theater wants to be institutionalized, the ideal form is that the rulers must just the least oversee or maximum support it.”

The university professor said that when the government reduces its intervention, theater would growm and improve. “Theater should be from the people, for the people and by the people to develop,” he argued.  

If theater stops improving, the country would witness the growing number of its prisoners instead, he said, explaining that theater was one of the medium helping elimination of crimes and prevention of social upheavals.