An Auditorium in Pardis Tehran Theater Named After Davoud Rashidi

The closing ceremony of the 5^th City Theater Festival was held in Pardis Tehran Theater on Tuesday with the participation of a group of artists and officials, irantheater.ir reported.

Ehsan Karami was the presenter of the gathering which was started with the speech of Mahmoud Salahi, deputy Tehran mayor and head of Tehran Municipality’s Cultural and Artistic Organization.

He thanked the Cultural Development Organization for its effort to launch an advanced theater venue after a few years, which would inaugurate concurrent with the 36^th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution of Feb 1-11.

Salahi said that Pardis Tehran Theater Complex extends over 30,000 square meters with a built-in-area of 8,000 meters and 10 theater auditoriums. It has a spacious 15,00-seat hall, four black-box like spaces of 120 to 150 seats, a 150-seat movie theater and an outdoor hall.

Turning to the festival, Mr Salahi said that 217 out of 1270 groups were admitted to the event which had over 200 performances in 13 auditoriums within the past week.

On the commemoration of veteran artists during each edition of the festival, he said that the festival paid tribute to Mahmoud Ostad Mohammad, Esmail Khalaj, Ali Nasirian, Davoud Rashidi respectively over the past fourth editions. He added that the fifth edition commemorated a woman and a man artist Maryam Motaref and Akbar Zanjanpour, respectively to respect the right of women who had been involved in theater.  

Reza Fayyazi, a noted theater director and actor, praised Ms Motaref for her theater activities while Qotbeddin Sadeghi paid tribute to Mr Zanjanpour.

Meanwhile, Tehran mayor, Mr Qalibaf, apologized the young and veteran theater artists for shortage of theater infrastructure in the capital, which deprive a major section of the young population of tapping talent. He extended his hands towards artists to help municipality to develop the infrastructure in the field of art and culture.

He criticized some officials who had been in charge for levelling their unfair judgements on him instead of seeing their own failures.

Marzieh Boroumand, a veteran puppet artist, delivered speech later, thanking Mr Qalibaf for helping the field by promising to open a puppet house. “One of the reason, I want you retain your job as Tehran mayor is that the land in which “Puppet House” will be built needs your assistance.”

Ms Boroumand, the secretary of Tehran-Mobarak 16^th International Puppet Theater Festival, said that death of Mr Rashid happened in a tough period but you were besides us at that time.

“I hope you will stay healthy and remain Tehran mayor to fulfill the last wish of the late Davoud Rashidi, which was building an auditorium adjacent to Sangelaj Theater,” she said.

In reaction to Ms Boroumand’s demand, Mr Qalibaf named one of the auditorium of Pardis Tehran Theater Complex after Davoud Rashidi.

Top Awards of City Theater Festival

• Street Section:

Poster & Brochure Design

“Har Che Sange Male Paye Langeh” by Massoud Mahini

Music

“Har Che Sange Male Paye Langeh” by Mohsen Chahshouri & Mehdi Monfared (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“Four Corners” by Amir Hossein Ensafi and Payam Rezaei (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

• Children & Young Adults Section:

Music

“Dream of Moon” by Sahand Bahadori (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“The Magic of the Doll” and “Ugly Black Wolf” by Amir Hossein Ensafi Rezaei (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

 

III-Stage Section:

Music

“Not Finished Yet” by Pouya Alinia (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“Sun Farmers” by Kian Hussein (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

 

Top Set & Costume Designs

• Street Section:

 “Four Corners” by Zohreh Fazli for set design and “My Son” by Sarah Dabiri and Zahra Moridi for costume and puppet designs (honorary emblem and cash prize)

• Children & Young Adults Section:

Costume Design

“Cotton Tail” by Roshanak Karimi (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“Ugly Wolf” by Venus Abouzari (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

Set Design

“The Magic of the Doll” by Sassan Farhadpour (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“Dream of Moon” by Elaheh Mirzaei and Hanieh Zahmatkesh (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

III-Stage Section:

Costume

“The Mistresses of Lemon Orchard: by Marzieh Radmanesh (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“Not Finished Yet” by Shahdi Afkhami (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

Set Design

“Cats & Gentelmen” by Mahsima Bozorgimehr (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“Pregnancy Morning Sickness” by Ebrahim Naeij (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

Photography Competition

Saina Ghaderi, Tabassom Argi and Fatemeh Khajehnouri (honorary emblem)

Roshan Norouzi (statue and honorary emblem)

Amir Kharazmi, Parna Baharali, Tabasom Argu, Siavash Hamidi, Fatemeh Khajenouri, Kiarash Sarsepar, Mehrnaz Mohammadi (honorary emblem and cash prize)

Top Photographers

Third award: Siavash Hamidi (honorary emblem and cash prize)

Second award: Hamed Malekpour (honorary emblem and cash prize)

First award: Parna Baharali (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

 

Top actresses

• Street Section:

“Four Corners”, Elaheh Pourjamshid and Baran Sotoudeh (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“Har Che Sange Male Paye Lange”, Maral Izadbakhsh (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

• Children & Young Adults Section:

“A Journey to the Fairy Land”, Nilofar Dehghan (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“The Magic of the Doll”, Fahimeh Baroutchi, Fereshteh Azami and Shirin Kashefi (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

• Stage Section:

Child Actress

“The Sun Farmers”, Saba Mirzanejad, Arman Dolatkia, Raya Navidishomali, Radin Mirbagheri (honorary emblem and cash prize)

Actresses

“Old Blade”, Baran Sotoudeh, “A Further Away”, Saharnaz Abbaszadeh, “Six-Story Apartment”, Maliheh Kia (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“Pregnancy Morning Sickness”, Aban Hosseinabadi (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

Top actors

• Street Section:

“Receiving Charge from a Dead”, Abouzar Chehel-Amirani and “Naughty Witch, Shrewd Mobarak” and “Sometime Tell No”, Amin Vahidipour and, “Forgotten”, Vahid Abdollahzadeh (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“Four Corners”, Mohammad-Hadi Ataei (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

• Children & Young Adults Section:

“The Magic of the Doll”, Amir-Hossein Ensafi, “A Journey to the Fairy Land”, Hadi Abolghasem (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“Dream of Moon”, Mohammad Nouhian, “Dream of Moon”, Hamid-Reza Mollahosseini, “Black Wolf”, Mehdi Davoudi, “The Magic of the Doll”, Arian Naserimehr (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)

• Stage Section:

 “Rusty”, Mojtaba Vashian, “Cats and Gentlemen”, Massoud Ramezani, “Six-Story Apartment”, Pejman Abdi (honorary emblem and cash prize)

“Sun Farmers”, Amir-Abbas Tofighi (statue, honorary diploma and cash prize)