Presentation of “Dubai Al Ahli Theater” at the Youth Theater Festival
“Story” .. a scene discussing women's concerns and their role in life
The show "Story" succeeded in attracting the audience that filled the theater hall.
Photography: Ahmed Ardeti
picture
What shade?
Is searching for it an attempt to find the truth?
Through these two questions, we can dive into the issues presented by the theatrical work “Story”, which was presented on the stage of the Culture and Science symposium the day before yesterday, within the Dubai Festival for Youth Theater.
The theatrical performance, produced by Dubai Al Ahli Theatre, written by Meera Al Muhairi and directed by Abdullah Al Muhairi, begins with performances and dances, to realize from the first moment that we are in front of a work full of theatrical spectacle, without missing its details, addressing women's social issues and what surrounds their existence and role in life.
values and concepts
The show succeeded in attracting the masses, as the theater was filled with the audience who sang a story that the writer excelled in making the audience seek women’s pain that touches the details of his life.
The audience traveled with the jockey Intisar, played by Azari Al-Suwaidi, who refuses to marry Mahboub, and sets out on an adventure on her horse to search for shade. In the midst of her search, she engages in many conflicts in different villages, and with various groups.
The author takes us in a symbolic way to the values that govern women's lives. The Knight Intisar stops at the village of "Al-Ta'anuf", then moves from it to the "Galat" people, and then to a village specializing in eloquent and contemporary poor poetry, and then to the village of "Al-Kabt", which she highlights with the symbolism of masks.
questions
Through the character of the Knight Intisar, the author presents many questions about the concepts that surround us, and their validity in this time, to touch the pain of a woman who rejects what society dictates to her about the necessity of marriage, and follows her insistence in searching for the shadow, which may be the reality of her existence, life and being.
Director Abdullah Al-Muhairi presented these events according to a diverse and open theater, moving from show and dance, to dramatic events, and comedy, and made the element of visual spectacle triumph in the service of the text.
Kinetic formations
The roles of the actors carried many kinetic formations, especially since their numbers were large on the stage, while the scenography that the director made of the stairs depended on the dynamism and movement, which allowed him to create different environments, through the formations of short and long stairs, the short ones were transformed into corridors, while they were The intersecting staircases are transformed into poetry-specific councils, oratory platforms, and a school for indoctrination, not education.
This varied composition in the stairs and the creation of different environments, enriched the show on the stage, but detracted from it at times, the dim lighting, which was absent the features of the actors from the audience.
healthy and slang
The show began in Standard Arabic, but soon it entered the local Emirati dialect on the text, diversifying between the two dialects. What.
Mira Al Muhairi employed the details of the show to serve immediate issues. She was expressing a woman’s cry in the face of many societal concepts, but at the end of the work she brought us back to the starting point, when she finished the work by marrying an victory to a beloved, and appearing pregnant, while providing and arming her with the insistence on trying again to move forward. On the search trip.
Mira Al Muhairi told "Emirates Today": "Work is my first experience in theatrical writing, and about the similarity between the story and Don Quixote, I can actually say that I created the general template of the novel only, but the journey that the jockey went through wanted her to reflect the immediate social reality, so I dropped features Our present life.”
Mira confirmed that she wanted from the end to bring us back to the starting point, because women in Arab society are always surrounded by those who dictate what to do, especially in the matter of marriage, no matter how hard and hard they struggle, describing her experience at the Dubai Festival for Youth Theater as a "distinguished opportunity to share my first experiences with the audience." .
space to experiment
Director Abdullah Al Muhairi said: “The Dubai Festival for Youth Theater is a space for experimentation, and through it we can discuss topics that interest us, and what caught me this year is that the festival has taken on the character of comedy, because according to the view of the organizer that comedy attracts people, but I actually see that any Beautiful work that can be attractive to attend.”
Al Muhairi pointed out that when he works in the theater, he looks for fun for himself as a director as well as for the audience, explaining that the work team achieved in last year's session a remarkable public success, creating trust with the audience, and for this he was able to attract him in this session.
He pointed out that he wanted, by mixing various types of theaters, to present what is close to Al-Shabab Street and the ordinary audience, not just the specialists.
He considered that the artistic work requires the respect of the public, and this fatigue is essential in presenting any work, noting that "Dubai for Youth Theater" has a special place for him, because he had the most prominent role in making his name and experience, wishing him continued progress and success.
The author, Mira Al Muhairi, was affected during the applied symposium by the words she heard from the audience and the actors. She pointed out that the theater had been her dream for a while, but she did not enter into the experience of writing in it until after she obtained the approval of her father, the theatrical Salem Al Muhairi.
Meera Al Muhairi:
“The Youth Theater is a unique opportunity to share my first experiences with the audience.”
Abdullah Al Muhairi:
“The festival is a space for experimentation, and we can discuss topics that interest us.”
Follow our latest local and sports news and the latest political and economic developments via Google news