"Sharjah Arts and Theater" show on the second day of "Dubai Youth Theater"

Tales, worries and characters coming out of the "frame"

• “The Frame” presented many concerns in a symbolic form on the second day of the festival.

  Photography: Ahmed Ardeti

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Figures came out of the frame of the paintings, to discover in the end that they are a group of characters in one person, embodied in the "Framework" show, which was presented on the stage of the Culture and Science symposium, on the second day of the Dubai Festival for Youth Theater in its 13th edition.

The show, which was produced by the Sharjah Society for Folklore and Theater, written by Saud Al Zarouni, and directed by Muhammad Juma, led the audience to immerse themselves in the depth of the characters who raise their concerns and issues, in a symbolic form, and in a coherent theatrical form, so that each person among the audience sees the same in these characters.

The show, in which Khalifa Nasser, Sarah Al-Saadi, Muhammad Ishaq, Issa Murad, Basil Al-Tamimi participated, began with the scene of the three thieves who enter a studio for the purpose of stealing, and they find a calm, indifferent figure, who possesses no jewels and valuables except paintings.

The show unleashes the imagination with the high symbolism in which the characters present their obsessions, pains and remnants of their past, and open all possibilities to the audience with the intelligent script that preserved the elements of mystery and surprise until the end of the work.

New roles

Among the thieves who have no goal but to steal what is valuable, we delve into the depth of the characters on the stage, when the painter decides to give them new roles, so the girl is appointed as a lawyer and she must start her plea to prosecute the two thieves she came with.

Through these woven events, the writer deals with a template that combines light comedy and drama, poverty, justice, and equality, but the most influential was his treatment of the misery of self-estrangement and internal dispersion, and the search for a name in a loss that may accompany us since childhood.

The work mixed between the dramatic treatment and some monologue, which added to the aesthetics of symbolism the flavor of comedy, and it also carried aspects with the theatrical storytelling work, when the characters were transformed into the narrator, to reveal their insides, sediments and pains.

But what distinguishes it is the harmony between the text and the direction. The image presented on the stage created the best directing solutions for the written text with high symbolism, while the actors worked in a team spirit, presenting an enjoyable show based on the victory of the team’s harmony on the stage.

scenography

The theatrical scenography was very nice, calm enough to harmonize with the script and the stage performance.

The director invented directive solutions in terms of lighting, especially at the beginning of the work, with the lamps that the thieves used for lighting, and it was supplemented with the use of tools on the stage, including the drawing base that was transformed into bars in the courtroom and a crutch in the hospital.

This vision was supplemented by the music that accompanied the actors during the show, as it was interspersed with musical pauses, which were important to give the events the necessary temporal context.

The work, which lasted about an hour, maintained its coherent rhythm, and the attention and astonishment of the audience until the end, which witnessed the collapse of the characters, which revealed to us that they are nothing but paintings drawn and placed in frames, and the painter lives with them these stories on an almost daily basis.

This collapse takes us to a world that is being built inside of us, a world that may not be fully reflected in front of people, but it is a world that includes many worlds.

high symbolism

Work writer Saud Al-Zarouni told "Emirates Today": "This is my second theatrical script, after my participation in the festival last year, and my winning of more than one award in more than one category."

He pointed out that when he began writing the text, he deliberately raised these important issues with high symbolism, because the theater tolerates this proposition, whether in a comic or serious style, explaining that the most difficult task for the writer is to present ideas in a way that does not make the audience get bored of the presentation, that is, to put issues in An entertaining template for the viewer, so that he can then receive all his vocabulary smoothly, noting that the symbolism in the theatrical work adds a lot of flavor to it and enhances its strength.

Scientific foundations

As for the director, Mohamed Jumaa, he talked about the difference in his directing work, saying: “I began studying at the Sharjah Performing Arts Academy, and my entry into the academy made me aware of theatrical work. , Whereas in the past I worked spontaneously, without any scientific basis, but by following the desire, and this made a lot of difference in my vision.”

Gomaa pointed out that through this theatrical performance, he worked a lot on the reality of the actor and the character, away from artificiality, trying to provide academic knowledge to the actors as well, with the aim of integrating the work.

He pointed out that he designed and implemented the decoration himself, and for this he deliberately made the accessories of the work from the theme of the one place, which is the studio, indicating that he was primarily concerned with the actor.

audience reaction

The show of the second day of the Dubai Festival for Youth Theater attracted the audience, and interacted with it throughout the show, whether in the comedy clips that the audience interacted with, or even in addressing issues that affect humans and tell their pain, including the issue of justice and equality, where the audience stopped the show with warm applause, Or calling the names of the actors during the performance as a salute for presenting the characters in a distinctive way.

Mohamed Gomaa:

"I worked on the reality of the actor and the character away from fakery, trying to provide academic knowledge to the actors."

Saud Al Zarooni:

“The most difficult task for a writer is to present ideas in a way that does not make the audience get bored.”

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