A look at the dimensions of revitalizing the student section of Fajr Theater Festival

Fars News Agency – Theater Group: As the most important theater event in the country, Fajr Theater Festival has always played an important role in introducing new members of the theater family, which will happen with the two arms of regional festivals and the student section.

Regional festivals play a role in introducing young people and theater groups that operate far from the capital, so that the art of theater exists in a fair way throughout Iran.

The student section of Fajr Theater Festival this year can introduce students who are at the beginning of their artistic path to the professional path of Iranian performing arts and be the foundation of their growth.

In the middle of August of this year, Mehdi Hamid Saqaian was appointed as the 21st director of the Fajr International Theater Festival by the decree of the General Director of Performing Arts. Looking at the record and activities of the director of the 40th Fajr Festival, it becomes clear that the appointment of someone from the academic body and community shows diligence. It will be especially for policy makers and upper managers of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in the field of universities and theater students during this course. An event that was predictable despite the fact that Kazem Nazari was an academic.

With the appointment of Saqayan and its simultaneous with the inactivity of the student theater festival, many critics and members of the media in the first speculations proposed the revival of the neglected part of the past eras, that is, the student part. And the student section, after several years of absence from the most important competitive event of the country’s theater, has again been placed among the ten sections of the 42nd period.

This event can be an important event for art students in a situation where the most important event of university theater, or the student theater festival, has been kept quiet by the Ministry of Science for several reasons, including the Corona epidemic.

On the other hand, by reviewing the rules and regulations of the student and competitive part of holding this course, in February of this year, the Fajr Theater Festival can be turned into a platform for presenting creative and new works and shows, because experience has proven that in every course that students attend the festival Fajr Theater has found its way, we have seen brilliant and unique works and of course full of audience, although by reviewing the past periods, we will come across many young and newly emerging artists who, due to their colorful and professional presence in the most important theater events of the country, have become prominent figures. and have become prominent theaters of the country, who have played the role and contribution of improvement in the theater body. A community that includes Nima Dehghan and Mohammad Ejavan to great people such as Mehrdad Rayani, Hadi Hejazifar, Kiyomarth Moradi, and many others who are considered prominent artists and indicators of Iranian theater today.

In the end, regardless of the fact that for the result of this process, it is necessary to pass time and follow the performance of the festival secretary, it must be said that revitalizing this department can bring forward-looking for the education of the young generation of the theater community, and of course, it will inject youth enthusiasm into the Fajr Festival.

According to the call of the 42nd Fajr Theater Festival, along with holding the Festival of Regions, as a function in the direction of restoring cultural justice throughout the country, which was added to the festival in the last period, and with the addition of the student section in this period, it can be an important step in the direction of building the future generation of Iranian theater. take over

However, it is necessary to ask the organizers of the festival for a detailed explanation about this call and the points contained in it, and of course the plans for its implementation.

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