20 Play on Imam Khomeini & 15 Khordad Uprising Acclaimed

The closing ceremony of the 4^th Khordad (June) Popular Theater Festival took place in Tehran on Wednesday, theater.ir reported.

Kourosh Zarei, director of the Dramatic Art Center of the Islamic Propagation Organization, expressed condolences on the death of a group of Iranians in terrorist attacks in Tehran.

"I should congratulate this nation who stand by the revolution and the system more strongly under such circumstances. Such incidents make our nation more united and encourage them to support the value of the founder of the Islamic Revolution (late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini) more," he said.
He added that the room for a Khordad (June) Popular Theater Festival was empty in Iran's performing arts which could make plays on the founder of the Islamic Revolution and his new ideas.

The ceremony was ended by awarding 20 theater groups with emblem of honor and cash prize.

1. Pilgrims, written and directed by Ali Mohammad Radmanesh from Tehran province
2. "The Land, Uprising, Shroud", written and directed by Pejman Shahverdi from Lorestan province
3. "Another Birth", written and directed by Mohsen Ardeshir from Mazandaran province
4. "Will", written and directed by Mostafa Koulivandi from Ilam province
5. "Tarsoun", written and directed by Ali Mehdi Farjami from Tehran province
6. "Abbas do Choub", written by Mohammad Ali Minavi, directed by Hossein Karegar from Khuzestan province
7. "God's Bloody Day", written and directed by Houman Mirmanavi from Gilan province
8. "Rostam and Sohrab", written by Haydar Rezaei, directed by Mojtaba Khalili from Isfahan province
9. "The Far Away", written and directed by Mohammad Qasemi from Tehran province
10. "Khordad Story", written and directed by Ali Barati from Tehran province
11. "Sleeping", written and directed by Behdad Balighfar from Tehran province
12. "Bagherabad", written and directed by Masoud Barahimi from Isfahan province
13. "A Special Day", written and directed by Mehdi Habibifar from Hamedan province
14. "Gachestan Battle", written and directed by Akbar Aeein from Kohkiloyeh-Boyer Ahmad province
15. "Ruhollah", written and directed by Abolfazl Hamrah from Tehran province
16. "Capture", written and directed by Seyyed Fereydoun Ahmadi from Kurdistan province
17. "Where Is Friend's Home?", written and directed by Saeed Kheirollahi from Ilam province
18. "Telling Talks", written by Morteza Asadi Maram, directed by Bahareh Saeedipanah from Kermanshah province
19. "From Persian Gulf to Jamaran", written and directed by Habib Naseri from Hormuzgan province
20. "Trial in Street", written and directed by Rasoul Haghshenas from Tehran province

4^th Khordad (June) Popular Theater Festival was held in Tehran and 11 provinces on June 3- Amir Hossein Shafiee was the secretary of the festival.