Expectations of 40,000 theaters from the National Performing Arts Document; Don’t be limited by structure

Fars News Agency – Theater Group: “Today, we don’t need to participate in festivals, I wish we had at least the minimum theater performance facilities in our city to use specialized lighting devices instead of flashlights and lamps.” These are the words of one of the artists present at last year’s regional theater festival in Mazandaran.

Compiling the National Theater Document was an action that was taken in order to solve the problems of the theater and its artists. Director General of Performing Arts Kazem Nazari says in relation to this document that “we intend to turn the General Department of Performing Arts into a bigger institution in the National Theater Document.” However, veteran theater, cinema and television artist Tajbakhsh Fanaian told Fars reporter in this regard that “what is important is the goals of the organization that wants to be created for the theater, not its shape and extent.”

High capacity street theater in Marivan

With 40,000 people, the theater has more than 3 times the membership of a large ministry and is widespread in all provinces of the country, and artists are active in all provinces.

However, in the current situation and before the national theater document was compiled, the General Department of Performing Arts has the responsibility of managing and supervising the theater in Tehran, and the supervision of the theaters in the cities is the responsibility of the Association of Performing Arts, which operates in the provinces, rather than the General Department managing theaters only in the size of Tehran. have a budget

According to the information available from the national theater document, this document is a twenty-year vision for the country’s theater, which tries to reform the country’s theater budget in addition to the structure.

The production of artistic products in the field of theater requires government support, which has been concentrated in the capital for a long time and weakened the city theater, while the unique feature of theater is that it is alive in all parts of the country.

Kazem Nazari says that “by establishing the country’s theater organization, we intend to make the workload of the General Department of Performing Arts and the volume of its beneficiaries proportional to the organization and its scope, so that the volume of theater problems will decrease, showing the workload of the theater will improve the budget and help to Financial problems should be resolved.”

However, most theater experts believe that “the important thing is the content of the theater organization, and a large organization alone will not solve a problem and may not have a specific solution. Even if the financial problems are solved, one must know how and for what the existing budget is used.” The goal must be determined and spent on it.

Tajbakhsh Fanaian, who is one of the veteran theater artists, says regarding the necessary features in the national theater document that “the organization of the theater should be formed in this document in a thematic and subject-oriented manner, topics that should be associated with Iranian culture and literature and the main goal show the theater so that there is a unity of theme in the multiplicity of this organization.

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