Zahra Sabri: Europe’s Comprehensive Puppet Art Center Values Iranian Puppets

Zahra Sabri complained about lack of proper space to preserve puppets made by Iranian puppeteers in the beginning of the press conference, irantheater.ir reported.

“I have a career of about 28 years in puppet shows and the problem my colleagues and I have always been faced was lack of space to keep our puppets,” she said.

Stressing the necessity to construct and open a puppet museum in Iran, Ms Sabri said that her puppets are on display since November 5 for four months in TOPIC. Tolosa’s International Puppet Centre in Spain. She added that the exhibition was sponsored by Tolosa Center and Dramatic Arts Center.

Ms Sabri explained that she had to devote time for repair of her puppets because they were kept in a friend’s house Roxana Bahram and some of her students due to lack of space.

The director regretted that she had lost many of her puppets in the course of time due to lack of a proper place to preserve them while she was worried where she could keep the puppets when they are returned from TOPIC center. “Only Europe’s Comprehensive Puppet Art Center values Iranian Puppets and there is no place to keep them in our country,” she criticized.

Ms Sabri, who has dedicated the exhibition to her mother, has taken more than 200 puppets of shows including “Eight Moments”, “Parrot Fly”, “The Earth and the Universe”, “Count to One”, “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The House of Bernard Alba”.

She also explained that “Count to One” was staged in five French cities, two days after her exhibition opened in Spain.