The playwrights stressed that the lack of texts and the lack of a generation qualified for creativity, in addition to the weakness of material and moral support, one of the main reasons that led to the migration of artists in this field, and fall in the arms of television drama and satellite channels, pointing out that this reflected negatively on the reality of the UAE theater , And create a real crisis that threatens to decline its role.
On the sidelines of their participation in the 12th Dubai Youth Theater Festival, which ended recently, playwrights and intellectuals considered that there is a strong need to establish a technical academy for the rehabilitation of a new and cultured generation of well-written playwrights, which will help Abu Falafun return to his position. Leading in education and awareness.
Causes and Solutions
Why does the UAE theater play a real crisis? A question posed by «Emirates Today» to a number of people interested in the Emirates Theater during the evenings of the festival, to find out the reasons and search for solutions.
For his part, the artist Abdullah Bouabd said that «the crisis of theatrical text in the UAE can not be separated from its counterparts in the Arab world, and the scrutiny of the nature of the circumstances that led to the crisis of writing for the theater we see that it is back to the new reality created by satellite channels, writers are investing their creative abilities In the writing of television drama, to the high material revenues for the writer himself compared to what is written by the theater of the return of material, in addition to the writing of television provides the writer fame and widespread does not achieve the theater ».
He called for the need to provide material support to the theater writers, so as not to have to go to other forms of writing that provide them with this support, and they are completely devoid of writing the play, in addition to stimulating the writers to invent, and unleash their imagination, provided that the text remains a message or To discuss a particular issue that concerns the members of one society. "
Set of obstacles
For his part, the artist Dr. Habib Ghuloum saw that "there are a number of obstacles that stand not only for theatrical youth, but in front of the entire UAE theater, the most important is the absence of a qualified generation of playwrights, which requires that those who wish to write a high culture, A wealth of vocabulary that serves his text, as well as his ability to research, to create new and innovative ideas for the issues he poses ».
"I call on the Youth Theater Festival to establish a specialized academy for the rehabilitation of a national cadre from the theater book, and to provide the scene with new faces and blood, especially in light of the development of theatrical movement in the UAE. The origins of the art of play writing, so that we reach the stage of a true Emirati text that attracts the actor to return to the stage, and the recipient to taste theatrical art again ».
"The academic training workshops can be started periodically throughout the year, and the idea of collective writing sessions, like many other Arab countries that have been able to reserve a place in the theater arena, can contribute to the improvement of the texts through the exchange of artistic experiences," he said. .
Son of his environment
The artist Bilal Abdullah said that «the project of the theater writing workshop adopted by some Arab countries, and the introduction of a theater expert supervised the workshops writing theatrical texts with a number of amateur writing, produced a good output, the creation of a playwright means to establish a state of creativity need to talent writing, With a workshop to improve the skills and learn the mechanisms of the establishment of dramatic treatment, provided that it does not depart from the issues of society at the moment, the theater is the environment and does not establish a pilot experience and start only from the environment, especially that the audience does not accept the theater imports its stories and topics and concerns from outside the community ».
Abdullah pointed out that «the absence of institutes lead to retreat from behind. Under the theater festivals held in the State, are hosting theatricals from other sister countries to conduct seminars, the lack of academic faces, the old generation will not be long, so we have to ring the alarm to become "We dreamed of having a technical academy to teach the writing of good play texts a national task. It is time for a generation of intellectuals and intellectuals to carry the flag. This will only become a reality by establishing academies that will deal with this matter."
Specialized workshops
"The presence of theater workshops adopted by cultural organizations in the UAE can be an ideal solution to qualify the youth generation in all artistic fields, especially theatrical text," said Fatima Al Jallaf, president of the Dubai Festival for Youth Theater at the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. In order to communicate with the new writers through these workshops to refine their talents, and give them the first self-motivation for writing the play, as a vital and cultural excellence, which could provide a good number of authors to continue the process of writing the play in the state ».
"The ten art workshops organized by Dubai Culture prior to the Youth Theater Festival were a theater academy that followed the scientific and practical method, providing a healthy theatrical atmosphere for the UAE theater, True in terms of cohesion and escalation of events and clarity of conflict and the crystallization of characters, and linking all elements of theatrical text in an integrated unit with the vision of output ».
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Workshops organized by Dubai Culture before the launch of the Youth Theater Festival, and tried to create a healthy atmosphere to push the stage of the UAE.