Qatar to take part in Kuwait Youth Theater Festival

10/8/2017 6:25:43 AM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Peninsula

Qatar, represented by the Center for Theater Affairs, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and Sports, will participate in the Kuwait Youth Theater Festival, which will be held on October 15.

Director of the Center for Theater Affairs, Salah Al Mulla, said in a statement to QNA that the play 'Whisper of Chairs was chosen by Ahmed Al Miftah and directed by Faisal Rasheed and played by a group of young Qatari artists. 'Whisper of Chairs was awarded the best theatre play performance of the 3rd Youth Theater Festival in December 2012, featuring the Arab reality that is inspired by the symbolism of the ruling power of chair and the authority.

The festival will be opened with the wide Arab participation, it will start with a Kuwaiti show (Ya Sada, Ya Kiram). It will also include a workshop by the Arab Theater Artistes and a seminar entitled Between Theory and Practice in Youth Theater.

Al Mulla expressed his regret for cancelling the Gulf Theater Festival for the disabled. He said the cancellation of the Festival is an unsuccessful step from those who sought it, expressing his refusal to submit art to political control.
He added that the theatre scene was not affected negatively by the siege, but witnessed a great cultural movement.

'We saw the participation of the private sector strongly in the theatre and the youth , as seen in (The Siege) play, and upcoming plays such as (Deirat Al-Ezz), as well as old stars returned to the theater such as Ghanim Al Sulaiti and Abdul Aziz Jassim, stressing that the opportunity is still available for all teams and companies to enter the season this year, which began on September already and continues until the end of March 2018, Al Mulla said.

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