The Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) today mourned the author, director and playwright Mohammed Awad, who died at the age of 81, after a long tender journey.
The authority said: The Bahraini art scene lost a symbol of the Gulf art scene, which had clear contributions to the theatrical movement, writing, directing and acting.
The media advisor to the King of Bahrain, Nabil Al-Hamar, mourned him on Twitter, saying: Bahrain today lost the stature of a theatrical, literary and cultural high.
"His artistic and theatrical tender since the 1960s has been an important creative tributary and enriched the theatrical and cultural movement in Bahrain and the Arabian Gulf."
Awad was born in July 1938 in the Gudaibiya area of Manama. He started his life as an art teacher before he founded the comedy theater group in 1968.In 1970, he co-founded the Bahraini theater group, which later became Awal Theater.
He has performed many plays such as "Ateeq Chair", "If you are obeyed by time", "Singer and Princess", "Ya Lail", "Boukhil in the Field", "Souk", "Halima and Mansour" and "Watermelon Market" and "The Way of Justice". »And others.
Television helped him achieve a greater spread through the comedy series «Sawalef Umm Hilal» in which he played the role of Abuhilal, and participated in many series, including «Hassan and Noor Senna» adapted from the thousand and one nights and «wonders of time» and «citizen good» and «pleasure »And« Hzawina Gulf ».
He was the director of the National Theater Company at the Ministry of Information in 1981, and was appointed supervisor to monitor artistic works at the Ministry of Information.