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Iranian Kurdistan: Mariwan to host street
theater festival
30.9.2008
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September 30, 2008
MARIWAN, Iranian Kurdistan, — The 3rd edition
of Iran’s National Street Theater Festival will be
held in Mariwan, the Kurdish city in west of
Kurdistan province from October 3 to 6.
Some 183 troupes submitted their plays to the
secretariat of the gala of which 34 plays were
selected for competition section, the secretary of
the gala Shahram Karami said in a press conference
on Sunday.
He went on to say that two troupes from Iraq’s
Kurdistan will also perform at the festival and the
Polish troupe “Barbara” will hold workshop on street
theater in the city.
Theater experts Maryam Mo’taref,www.ekurd.net
Farhad Ayeesh and Nader
Borhani-Marand will chair the jury of the gala, he
added.
Another workshop will be held by the Iranian stage
director Amir Dejakam on the sidelines of the
festival. Theater expert Mohammadreza Alvand will
hold meetings with the Director of the Center for
Dramatic Arts Hossein Parsaii,www.ekurd.net
Karami added.
The festival will host ten plays from Tehran and 24
plays from other Iranian cities in competition
section.
Mahmud Farhang’s “The Stone Soup” will be performed
at the Special Section. Siamak Baniani “Fairy
Cockroach”, Rajabali Fallah’s “Bride of Rain” and
Mohsen Purqasemi’s “Gallows and Circle” will be
staged at the festival’s Side Section.
Morad Aziz’s “Treasure Flower for Theater” and Kardo
Aziz’s “My Stories’ Human” from Iraq’s Kurdistan
will perform at the festival.
Each play will perform in street of Mariwan three
times and 15 plays will be selected for the 27th
Fajr International Theater Festival.
In a report released in July 2008, the human rights
organisation, Amnesty International
expressed concern
about the increased repression of Kurdish Iranians,
particularly human rights defenders.
The report cited examples of religious and cultural
discrimination against the estimated 12 million
Kurds who live in Iran.
“We urge the Iranian authorities to take concrete
measures to end any discrimination and associated
human rights violations that Kurds,www.ekurd.net
indeed all
minorities in Iran, face,” Amnesty said in its
report.
“Kurds and all other members of minority communities
in Iran, men, women and children, are entitled to
enjoy their full range of human rights.”
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