A reflection on the story of the complaint of the producer of the show “Parvin” against the director/ general director’s refusal to accept responsibility and the artificial coma of “Khane Teatar”
The simplest task of the General Department of Performing Arts was to call the producer and the artist and try to provide some kind of satisfactory conditions for the parties and not to go to the judicial institution.
Charso Press: The publication of a note on the Instagram page of Hossein Kiani, a playwright and theater director, written by this artist and the disclosure of the producer’s complaint, opened a new chapter about the continuing withdrawal of the General Department of Performing Arts in critical situations.
The story is that Hossein Kayani wrote the play “Parveen” about three years ago by suggestion or request ““Performance Publications”, the subsidiary body of the General Department of Performing Arts wrote. At the same time, Qadir Ashna (Director General of Dramatic Arts at the time) stated in an interview with Etemad newspaper that he ordered about eleven or twelve plays from good theater writers and plans to arrange for these works to be staged in addition to printing. which was postponed every time due to the spread of the corona virus until 29 farvardin 1401 The news came that Daoud Namour, the manager of Noufel Loshato Theater, has taken over the production of the show “Parvin” and Hossein Kiani’s new experience is going to be staged in the main hall of the “City Theater” complex.
The interesting thing here is that on this very day, that is 29 farvardin 1401 The interview of the director general of new performing arts with ISNA news agency is on line, during which he advised artists to find a “producer” for themselves. In his interview, Kazem Nazari called an unspecified “us” to form professional theater platforms similar to foreigners.: “Drama groups should be able to find their own producer and have a production manager. We must provide platforms for the formation of professional theater that is performed abroad through companies. “Now that theater is not in the family consumption basket due to the Corona situation and the economic situation, we have to act here and help.” Finally, the show “Parvin” was staged on June 8, so that everything went according to the government’s plan. At least here, when it comes to the order and the request and the subject approved by them, there should not be a stroke in the process of creation and production; Besides, according to the newly arrived managers, the artist has shown attention and has also made himself a successful producer; However, the news that Hossein Kayani published on his personal page the other day, regardless of its many aspects and various details, which will probably be available to the media after the court is held, once again reminded the theater community that the General Department of Performing Arts is not responsible in any way in the new era. is not.
In the sense that the director recommends that the artists adopt “producer” and “production manager” and behave similarly to foreign companies! Have; But for the half-empty glass, the offer has no plans and plans. It’s not going to look like foreigners here! act? The stage where “we have to create platforms for the formation of professional theater”, because the cost of producing a show commissioned by the government, in the main hall of the government, is not going to be paid from the government’s pocket.!
The simplest task of the General Department of Performing Arts was to call the producer and the artist and try to provide some kind of satisfactory conditions for the parties and not to go to the judicial institution. The fact that Iran’s well-known playwright and director will be brought to court for the reasons of artistic production and performance problems is not a source of pride for anyone. This case is no longer similar to cases of artist bans, where the general director claims that “they must have done something to be banned.”” Let’s say that unlike 99% of the times when the payment is supposed to be on someone else’s shoulders, it is recommended to “behave like foreigners”, but when the work comes to an obstacle, there is no longer any news about the professional behavior of the decision-making body, and the forefinger of the managers, the address of the court and the prosecutor’s office to the artists. it shows. “Theatre House” also lives in an artificial coma and vegetative life.