Message of Dramatic Art Department’s Director

“Man constitutes the true nature of theater. Since theater has an old and perpetual relationship with human, it has been constantly calling on mankind to thinking,” Dashtgoli said. “Cosequently the art society has also felt the urge to generate idea.”
“Attention to the feature and meaning, which is emanated from the thought and is joined with care for the philosophy of understanding and aesthetic, could move in the path of immortality,” he said, according to the Iran Theater website from the Information Center of the 30th Fadjr International Theatre Festival.
“The art is a child of human thinking,” Dashtgoli said and added, “The discovery of potentials and elegances always comes to life by thinking and becomes sublime through forging a relationship with the religious and indigenous culture.
“Iran’s theater has experienced a worthy period in recent years and presented valuable artworks,” he said.
“Undoubtedly, the development of Iran’s true theater is depended on such fact. The real and legal identity of the Iranian culture is inseparable from their religious and monotheistic teachings,” Dashtgoli explained, adding, “Iranian artists have unveiled the mask of the history by [understanding] this secret and the more such fact is being understood, the longer timsought in religious beliefs to establish bond with people,” he said. “A theater artist not only should have a thorough academic knowledge of the field but also should find ways to the hearts and souls of the audience and not only have a common language but also a union with them.”     
He also said participation of Iran’s theater circle with their latest achievements as well as international theater artists in the festival was a source of joy, hoping that the Iranian nation could benefit from the dramatic art creations concurrent with the celebration of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.    
The festival is taking place in Tehran and provinces of Alborz, Golestan, Kermanshah, Lorestan and Northern Khorasan until e the artworks remain.”
The director said that the theme of this year’s Fadjr International Theater Festival is “Theater for all” as it was for the previous editions.
“We believe that the national theater and its necessary and fundamental elements must be February 11. Rahmat Amini is the secretary of the festival.
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