Mohammad -Ali Sadegh -Hasani : Street theater artists should make new works

About adding a street section to the regional theater festival, he said: "I think it's better for street theater artists to participate in festivals with new productions. I meant that they produce new theaters that have not participated in any festival before, just like the stage section where plays that have participated in other festivals cannot submit. Works that have been produced since the beginning of the year until the provincial festival can participate."

He thinks that street theater should be performed in open areas of the city: "At festivals, street shows should not be performed in a closed space, street theater is actually something else. When it is performed at the city, everyone will have the opportunity to see and know the street show, and this will have great impact on the joy of the society and even the Business cycle."

 

Mohammad -Ali Sadegh- Hasani is one of the first generation of street theater artists in Iran: "When a street show is effective and has something to say, people welcome it, for example, on the closing day of the Fadjr Festival, I performed  a show  for  twenty-three times without a break , because the audience requested. In the end, Mahmoud Farhang came and took us to participate in the ceremony, when we didn't even have time to change our clothes."

 

He points out that there have been street performances in Iran since many years ago: "Our people are not strangers to street performances. In the past, we had Ma’rekeh, siah bazi, and pahlavan bazi, which were all performed in the open air and were street performances, and we have somehow made a street with our Iranian show. And our street theater artists should go for new subjects, there are thousands of topics in the discussion of social harms that can be dealt with. "