The “Text Committee” selects 6 shows that touch the audience’s concerns
Dubai Festival for Youth Theater is biased towards comedy and purposeful content
Over the past years, the festival has worked on refining talents and pushing them into the art scene.
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The texts and titles committee of the Dubai Festival for Youth Theater 2022 has selected six theatrical scripts to participate in this festival, which is organized by the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) from October 19 to 26 next at the Culture and Science Symposium Theater in Al Mamzar area.
Fatima Al-Jallaf, Acting Director of the Performing Arts Department at Dubai Culture, said, "The Dubai Festival for Youth Theater is a gateway for young theatrical talents in the various emirates of the country, and we seek in each session of the festival to improve its content and the quality of the works presented, in order to preserve the gains that have been made. He achieved during his career, by discovering promising talents in theatrical texts from citizens and residents, as well as developing the skills of these young authors, and enhancing their talents by presenting their theatrical texts to the public.” Which reflects the distinguished level reached by the youth theater in the Emirates.
The texts and titles committee, headed by the artist Maree Al-Halyan, and the membership of Dr. Basma Younis and Dr. Haitham Al-Khawaja, received 11 theatrical scripts between March 31 and May 31 last from various private theaters in the Emirates, and sorted them according to the specified criteria, and chose six texts to participate in the festival.
The head of the committee, artist Maree Al-Halyan, stressed the importance of the festival in highlighting young playwrights through its successive sessions.
He added: "I am proud of my participation in the activities of the new edition of the festival in the texts and titles committee, and this pride stems from the value of this creative festival, which works to refine talents and push them into the art scene."
He added: "The festival has gone through the renewal of its mechanisms in different stages, and this year it is taking off in a new way, approaching the audience by devoting purposeful comedy, and dedicating the presence of the Emirati element, whether young men or girls, which supports human development efforts in society."
Regarding the selection of texts, Al-Halyan said: “We were honest with the texts submitted by the theater groups and their writers, and we based our selection based on the festival's new orientations, towards a youth comedy theater close to the audience.
We also took into account the artistic and aesthetic benefits required by the basics of writing for the theater, from the elaborate plot, the logical generation of events, the clarity of intellectual and artistic discourses, and the approach of the subject being addressed to the contemporary reality of the young generation.”
He continued, "I think that this year's session of the festival will witness interesting theatrical performances that approach the audience and their life concerns, and this is the role of the theater, which represents a true mirror that reflects reality and reveals it to the public for its insight and standing by it."
For his part, the committee member, Dr. Haitham Al-Khawaja, praised the theatrical texts presented by the participating teams.
He said: "What I have read calls for appreciation and admiration, with different levels in quality, idea, vision and artistic treatment, but that does not prevent us from saying: (Most of the theatrical texts advanced to participate in the festival are directed, and insistently, towards experimentation), and they are drawn from real experiences so that they are characterized The text is contemporary and touches the concerns of the recipient, as if most texts are concerned with what the audience wants to see on stage.”
He continued: “These texts do not linger with the bed, but rather penetrate into the depths of human humanity and excavate what must be excavated through different techniques, methods and different visions.
Although the fantasy managed to obtain some texts, this fantasy remained consciously employed to serve both the text and the presentation.
The texts chosen by the committee include: “Story” written by Meera Al Muhairi (Dubai Al Ahli Theatre), “When the Curtain is Raised” by Abdullah Al Muhairi (Dubai National Theatre), and “The Last News” written by Ahmed Al Majed (Zayed Theater for Talents and Youth), And “Dobie” written by Muhammad Saleh Al-Sidi (Yas Theatre), “To Whom It May Concern” written by Muhammad Salih Al-Sidi (Kalba Theatre), and “The Frame” written by Saud Al Zarooni (Modern Theatre).
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Member of the Texts and Titles Committee of the Dubai Festival for Youth Theater 2022, Dr. Basma Younes, said that "the festival has an important role in creating an elite group of creators, by sponsoring and guiding them in the necessary ways to form skills and formulate them in the best possible way."
She added about the participating texts, that they "clearly reflect the reality and what the world has achieved in light of technological development and the madness of social media, and will address society in a nice and ambitious youthful language capable of criticizing a lot of what is happening," explaining: "The plays will draw attention to societal issues and what technology wants." Tampering with it in a comic style that carries a purposeful content will resonate with the audience.”
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Theatrical script submitted to the festival.
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Next October, performances will start on the stage of the Culture and Science Symposium in Dubai.
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