Provincial artists have the ability to shine internationally

Kaveh Mohammadzadeh started his artistic activity in 1988 by acting in the show "The Story of a Tomb on the Platform" directed by Khaled Heydari. He has acted in the shows "21st Night", "Everybody's Hustle", "Mayabo", " Medea", "Christ Weeps", "Prisoner No. 3", "Menali He Tau". He created a group called "Bazi" in 2002, with other artists, and started directing by making a children's show.

He performed shows such as "Rabbit House", "Hey Children, Help Me", "Two Sisters", "Shilan", "Taghaneh Agha One, Two, Three", "Shari Shove Karden", "Teatle and Beable" with Bazi group . He has directed "Ke Jhal and Shah Mal" and "Cinderella".

 

The play " Khe Vani Ra sh " written and directed by Kaveh Mohammadzadeh was performed at the Syrian International Theater Festival and won a special prize in the last week of March.

Kaveh Mohammadzadeh said about the story of the show: "it’s about the crime against humanity and Chemical bombing of Sardasht and Halabja  by the criminal Ba'athist Iraq."

This director pointed out the most important motivation that inspired him to the write this play: The tragedy of Halabja and Sardasht had always was in my mind, and because I had met the chemical veterans of Sardasht and  was a witness of their problems and conditions, I wrote two plays named "Avat" and "Khe Vani Re sh" with the same theme, so that I could show the world the oppression of the people and Saddam's cruelty and crimes through the language of drama.

He said about the difficulties of producing this show: "We were rehearsing in a very bad situation, we didn't stop work even at the height of the unrest in the city, and we were rehearsing intensively. Although the main actor left the project due to the unrest in Syria and it made it more difficult for me, and I used another actor, but we reached the final recording stage and after two reviewing, among the 118 submissions, our show had been chosen for the festival. It was among 11 selected works.

Regarding his participation in the 6th Syrian International Theater Festival, mohammadzadeh added: In order to participate in the festival, according to the call, we sent the film to the festival by  email, and after a two-stage evaluation, we were invited to participate in the festival. The press coverage of this festival and various interviews were done on different Syrian networks, something we see in domestic festivals as well.

He continued: The subject for festival has no limit. Of course, the anti - war shows had priority. I also had rehearsal for this play for six months, then I recorded the show to present to the festival.

Mohammadzadeh also talked about the quality level of this theatrical event: I had previously been invited and attended as a special guest and workshop organizer from idea to performance in Iraq and Tunisia, so I must say that the quality level of shows was very great and the important feature of this festival was that for foreign groups, they prepared  the decor with the guidance of the director and stage designer, and the secretariat of this festival assumed the travel expenses for foreign groups.

In the end, the artist added: "More support for theater groups in the cities will undoubtedly lead to the production of valuable shows that will shine not only in Iran but also in the world. I want the officials to pay more attention to the city groups, I am sure that with the creativity and effort of these city artists, valuable works will be produced and performed.