Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
Nov 16 2004
Damascus Theatre Festival kicks off Tuesday
DAMASCUS, Nov 16 (KUNA) — The 12th Damascus Theatre Festival kicks
off Tuesday after a 16-year halt in an attempt to revive the Syrian
theatrical movement and create an opportunity to interact with Arab
and international theatre companies.
Plays to be performed in Damascus, as well as in Aleppo for the first
time during this event, are from Syria, Iraq, Saudi, Qatar, Jordan,
Lebanon, Tunisia, Sudan, Yemen, Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Finland, and
Armenia. The festival also includes three seminars on “theatre and
other means on communication”, “Arab theatre and the contemporary
identity”, and “the impact of politics on theatres’ communiqu{“.
After this long absence of the festival, it returns with reprinting
of eight books on the Arab theatre and its progress and another
publication that includes most of the documents relating to the
festival since its launch in 1969.
The opening ceremony is to take place at Dar Al-Assad for Culture and
Arts which was inaugurated earlier in the year and includes
distribution of awards to honor many creative figures, Syrian and
Arab.