Top Theater artists honored
Iran Theater-some activities in the field of Sacred Defense theater were honored with lifetime achievement awards in the program “Narrators of Resistance” at the Arasbaran Cultural Center in Tehran on Sunday.
Kourosh Soleimani was the presenter and at the opening of the ceremony Hamid Nili, CEO of the Revolution and Holy Defense Theater Association said: "Just as warriors fought valiantly on the battlefields of right against wrong, artists also have a duty to remember their sacrifice for the sake of recording history and passing it on to future generations through their artistic expression”."
Alireza Hanifi, Roya Afshar, Hamidreza Azarang, Majid Kazemzadeh, Malek Seraj, Kamran Shahlai, Morteza Shahkaram and Shahram Karami honored.
“I Wish Your Lips Were Retuned Instead of Your Bones” written by Shahram Karami and “Where Are You Ebrahim” written by Leili Aaj were unveiled at the ceremony.
The program was organized by Iran’s Association of Sacred Defense and Revolution Theater in collaboration with the Art and Cultural Organization of the Tehran Municipality.
The 40th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war is being commemorated by performing several plays at the Sacred Defense Museum in Tehran.