Fadjr Theater Festival to Host 170 works
Iran Theater- The press conference of Fadjr Theater Festival was held in Rudaki Hall with the presence of officials.
The secretary of the festival presented a report on the performance and activities of the 39th Fajr Theater Festival during the media conference. He said: the 39th Fadjr Theater festival hosts 107 plays.
The meeting was attended by various officials, including Qader Ashna, Director General of Performing Arts Center, Hojjatoleslam Behdarvand, Advisor to the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance and Festival Secretary, Hossein Mosafar Astaneh, Secretary of the 39th Fadjr Theater Festival, Reza Basirat Chairman of the Evaluation and Supervision Council of the General Directorate of Performing Arts, a group of festival staff managers.
Hossein Mosafer Astaneh said:” We all know how influential the art of theater has been in various stages of human life, especially theater, which has always played a key role in calming mental states and has never distanced itself from this role throughout history. The theater is formed from the heart of a current that aims at social peace in the difficult events of the past when people were facing disasters. It was the theater that removed the despair, despair and many of these tragedies.
“Veteran photographer of theater Akhtar Tajik, theater critic Homayun Aliabadi, veteran actor Bahram Ebrahimi as well as a prominent actor of North Khorasan Province Jamshid Davarpanah are the four veterans who will be honored,” the festival director Hossein Mosafer Astaneh, said in a press conference at the Rudaki Hall on Wednesday
He added:” Theater artists and theater thinkers have played an important role in bringing back the spirit, hope and feeling to the society with various plans and programs. We are facing a difficult and exhausting situation that the world is facing, despite the fact that the theater could not have public performances like in the past and heal the soul of the society, but it was not idle. Although it has not been possible to perform, it has not stopped working. I would like to say about the groups that worked hard in these conditions, whether they went on stage or not, they did not stop trying, they worked hopefully and played their role in communicating with the people. Few of the martyrs had other disciplines.”