Marivan Street Theater Festival Educates People Like a University

He has taken part at the festival for seven years, winning awards such as the third best director, the second best idea and the best idea and the second best director at the fifth edition.

His play at the 12^th edition is about a social problem in Marivan. Iran Theater has conducted an interview with Mr Zadsar.

How did the idea of "Ancient Excavations" occur to your mind?

I have been active in street theater film for a long time. Our troupe has been a founder of theater in villages. Majority of our performances are in Kurdistan villages. I noticed in one of my performances that villagers get sick because they live near garbage dump yards. Their protests had not bear any fruits. Therefore, I decided to picture this disaster in a dramatic way to convey their protests to officials.

 

It seems you raised a different subject from that is understood in the play.

Yes, I made the play in magic realism to connect the story to a millennium later to show the depth of what this disaster can do on people in a distant future. It tells the story of a student who has inherited a map of the village. He is trying to find the reason for death and extinction of the people of that village…The play will show both the problems of garbage dump near the village and be a warning against environmental woes such as water crisis.

What is top advantage of Marivan festival?

The festival has had positive impacts on the city. Many of our youth and adolescents have grown up with the festival and feel close to it. It has many audience and educate people. In other words, street theater in Marivan is like a university. People of Marivan understand theater today. That is its best point for us.

Marivan hosts the festival until September 13. Fateh Badparva is the secretary