2nd Day of Razavi Theater Festival
Acting Workshop, Stage Performances, Naghali* & Pardeh-Khaani**
The second day of the 11th Razavi Theater Festival started with a workshop on guiding actors.
Ghotbeddin Sadeghi, noted Iranian theater director, taught lessons on how to guide actors in a workshop on the second day of the 11th Razavi Theater Festival on Saturday in northeastern city of Bojnourd in North Khorasan province.
The three-day workshop will close today, irantheater.ir reported from Bojnourd.
Mr Sadeghi explained on how to make the role sexier. “The character must be interesting to inspire curiosity of the audience,” he said. “When you want to play a character, you should know what kind of person he or she is and what is his or her life’s concern? If you could find this, you can build up the character.”
Mr Sadeghi insisted that the most difficult task for an actor was to find secret motivations of characters. “This cannot be found just by mimicking the role. Some actors picture one feeling in a character.
They are scared of or surprised by showing several feelings of a person. It is possible that the writer or director could not help the actor in finding out the internal emotions of a character. You, as actor, should find it yourself.”
The director of “Yadegar-e Zariran (Memorial of Zariran)” asked the students of his workshop on the day two, “Why do you want to be an actor?”
He stressed that an actor must be a free soul. The first step is freedom and there are practices to get relaxed and have internal peace. The second step is concentration and focus on the energy and target.
Mr Sadeghi insisted that the acting was a serious job, which needed order, adding that actors should understand the dramatic structure and the form of the piece.
The evening of the second day of the festival included shows of “This Dull” by Ezatollah Mehraavaran in Hafiz Theater, “Sharareh” by Mohammad-Mehdi Khatami in Shams Theater and “The Mirror”, which is written by Saeed Tashakor and directed by Mehdi Fathi, in Golshan Theater.
Ezatollah Mehraavaran and Hossein Madahnia did naghali in the outdoor space of Golshan Complex at 9:30 pm.
The 11th Razavi Theater Festival will continue until Wednesday.
* Naghali is telling stories of Iranian fables, remained from ancient times.
** Pardeh-khaani is singing and telling stories from a curtain (pardeh).