Damascus-SANA
The new issue of the quarterly Theatrical Life magazine contains new topics, phenomena, and performances recently witnessed by the Syrian theater, highlighting the festivals of Abi al-Funun in a number of governorates.
In the opening speech, Editor-in-Chief Joan Jean pointed to the importance of specialized seminars in theater that were held and dealt with issues related to the reality of the Syrian stage in general and the theater of children in Syria in particular, pointing out that these seminars are something that our theaters and halls of our cultural centers and cultural festivals in Damascus and other cities wrote.
In the issue, Dr. Haitham Al-Khawaja and Abdul-Hakim Marzouk wrote two articles about the performance of the death hymn, which was presented on the stage of the cultural center in Homs, while Nada Habib Ali wrote about the Maestro show that was presented on the stage of my people in Latakia. Their focus was the Corona pandemic.
Elias Al-Hajj presented an intense theatrical activity witnessed by the Lattakia Lighthouse of the Syrian Trust for Development, while Hana Abu Asaad presented an article about a workshop for preparing an actor in the Directorate of Theaters and Music.
On the writings of the writer Malik Sukour about Pushkin's productions in theater and literature, Najwa Saliba wrote an article, as we read in the number, recapitulating the experience of theatrical artist Mohsen Abbas, who passed away late last year, in addition to an article about the Ministry of Education's prizes for the World Theater Day competition.
The Festivals section elaborated on the many theatrical festivals that took place on the stage in the governorates of As-Suwayda, Damascus, Homs, Al-Hasakah, Hama, Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor.
In the celebration of World Theater Day, Elias Al-Hajj, Muhammad Hilal Demalkhi, Muhammad Khair Kilani and Christine Kassab wrote about performances presented by teams in the governorates on this occasion, as well as a symposium organized by the Directorate of Theaters and Music with the participation of writers, directors, critics and academics.
In Windows on the Arab Theatre, Dr. Muhammad Samir Al-Khatib prepared a series of articles on Arab personalities who excelled on stage from the Egyptians, Hassan Attia, Fahmy Al-Khouli, the Lebanese, and Tafa Hammadi, and others that dealt with theatrical phenomena and festivals in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Iraq.
As for the issue’s file on children’s theater, we read several articles, including by Dr. Hamdi al-Mawsili, on issues of child theater, while Nader Akkad wrote about child drama and interactive theater, and Muhammad Khair al-Kilani’s presentation of Sahab Jahjah’s experience and titled Daoud Abu Shakra’s article in (Children’s Theater: Importance and Tasks).
The issue was concluded by the playwright Abdel-Fattah Rawas Qalaa Ji in readings about projects for training students on theater and developing culture in it because of the awareness and knowledge it provides.
Muhammad Khaled Al-Khidr