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TEHRAN-- Curtains will increase on Saturday at Tehran theaters to host drama enthusiasts for the 41st edition of the Fajr International
Theater Festival.About 40 plays have actually been selected to be carried out in the national competitors and 23 troupes will offer
performances in the worldwide competition, the festival president, Kurosh Zarei, stated in a press conference on Tuesday.The foreign
performers are from Brazil, Russia, Oman, Spain, Iraq, Armenia, Tunisia and Jordan, and a number of theater professionals from Ireland,
Serbia, Algeria and Russia will hold workshops during the festival, which will run until January 31
7 supervisors of global celebrations and a group of 25 phase artists from across the world have actually been welcomed to participate in the
festival.This years celebration plans to release a union of the Islamic world theater in the global area
Twenty documents from 10 Muslim countries will exist on January 27 and 28
The festival had actually planned to arrange the launch of the union in Khuzestan Province with a number of efficiencies from Arabian
groups, however, the plan was canceled due to an absence of sufficient funds
Theater is an art that can produce compassion among Muslim countries, since it is formed based on discussion, said Zarei and noted that
the world needs to engage in dialogue to avoid wars.In calls published on social media, groups of Iranian artists have actually asked their
coworkers to boycott all Fajr festivals, which are arranged every year to celebrate the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in support of
the discontent that has actually struck the country over the previous 4 months
Although numerous artists have been threatened, yet they have persisted excitedly in their choice to participate in the festival, Zarei
said.He expressed his thanks to the individuals and saw the calls to shut down theater as oppression of individuals
Theater is an activity that never ever is closed; by closing down theater, we would be depriving ourselves and the people of it, he
added.The theater festival will be followed by the 41st Fajr International Film festival.Photo: President of the 41st Fajr International
Theater Festival, Kurosh Zarei (3rd L) and his colleagues go to a press conference at Rudaki Hall in Tehran on January 17, 2023, to brief
the media about the occasion
