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Fajr Intl. Theater Festival ends with “Cool Finale” win
TEHRAN, Feb. 2 (MNA) -- Iran’s “The Cool Finale of Memory” by Nima Dehqan won the Grand Prize of the 28th Fajr International Theater Festival.
The selected works of festival, the International Association of Theatre Critics Awards (IATC Awards), the Audience Awards and the best play of Iran’s regional theaters were announced during the closing ceremony on Sunday at the Vahdat Hall.
The play also won the Best Play Award in the International Section. The Best Director Award was presented to Nima Dehqan and the Best Playwright Award went to Hamid Azarang in the International Section.
Composer Farshad Fozuni and the stage designer Manuchehr Shoja’ were also awarded for the play, which narrates the difficulties the families of martyrs faced after the Iran-Iraq War.
The Special Jury Award of the International Section of the festival went to Reza Servati for his “Macbeth”.
Setareh Pasyani won the Best Actress Award for her role in “House” and Italian artist Fabrizio Pugliese won the Best Actor Award for “Frankenstein”.
IATC awarded Reza Haddad’s “Revelation on a Silent Party” as the best play and the IATC’s Best Director Award went to Atefeh Tehrani for “Othello”.
Composers Ebrahim Yasavolzadeh and Meysam Javadi won IATC Awards in the Music Section for “Fairy Talking of Stone and Love”. Costume designer Sahar Eftekharzadeh won the IATC Award for “Othello”.
Best Actress Award of IATC went to Sima Tirandaz for “Fairy Talking of Love and Stone” and Behzad Farahani won the Best Actor Award of IATC for “God is talking in Altoona”.
The Iranian play “Mud” by Yaser Khaseb and the foreign play “The Table” by the Karbido theater troupe from the Netherlands won the Audience Awards of the festival.
Mehdi Borumand from the Western Iranian city of Kermanshah was awarded as the best play at Iran’s regional theater of the festival for his “Paper House”. The play received a two-week certificate for public performance in Tehran.
Several artists and officials, including the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini and Deputy Culture Minster for Artistic Affairs Mohammad-Hossein Imani-Khoshkhu, attended the ceremony.
At the ceremony, veteran stage artists were invited on stage for commemoration and voiced complaints on the current situation of Iran’s Theater.
Dariush Farhang, who returned to stage after a 30 year hiatus with “Galileo”, was honored at the ceremony.
He commented on the indifference of officials towards theater saying that periodic micro-management of art in Iran always hurts artists.
Actor Behzad Farahani was also honored at the event. He also commented on the official’s behavior after appearing on stage.
“I hate to engage into politic anymore, but I quit writing and directing in protest. I will continue acting if I am invited otherwise I will also quit that,” he lamented.
The festival also paid tribute to the veteran stage director Behruz Gharibpur who attended the festival with Rumi Opera Puppet Show.
He lamented the situation faced by stage artists in Iran and officials’ apathy toward the problems artists encounter during their careers.
Stage director Atila Pasyani, Maryam Motaraf and Iraj Raad and theater scholar Mohammadreza Khaki were also honored during the event.
The selected works of festival, the International Association of Theatre Critics Awards (IATC Awards), the Audience Awards and the best play of Iran’s regional theaters were announced during the closing ceremony on Sunday at the Vahdat Hall.
The play also won the Best Play Award in the International Section. The Best Director Award was presented to Nima Dehqan and the Best Playwright Award went to Hamid Azarang in the International Section.
Composer Farshad Fozuni and the stage designer Manuchehr Shoja’ were also awarded for the play, which narrates the difficulties the families of martyrs faced after the Iran-Iraq War.
The Special Jury Award of the International Section of the festival went to Reza Servati for his “Macbeth”.
Setareh Pasyani won the Best Actress Award for her role in “House” and Italian artist Fabrizio Pugliese won the Best Actor Award for “Frankenstein”.
IATC awarded Reza Haddad’s “Revelation on a Silent Party” as the best play and the IATC’s Best Director Award went to Atefeh Tehrani for “Othello”.
Composers Ebrahim Yasavolzadeh and Meysam Javadi won IATC Awards in the Music Section for “Fairy Talking of Stone and Love”. Costume designer Sahar Eftekharzadeh won the IATC Award for “Othello”.
Best Actress Award of IATC went to Sima Tirandaz for “Fairy Talking of Love and Stone” and Behzad Farahani won the Best Actor Award of IATC for “God is talking in Altoona”.
The Iranian play “Mud” by Yaser Khaseb and the foreign play “The Table” by the Karbido theater troupe from the Netherlands won the Audience Awards of the festival.
Mehdi Borumand from the Western Iranian city of Kermanshah was awarded as the best play at Iran’s regional theater of the festival for his “Paper House”. The play received a two-week certificate for public performance in Tehran.
Several artists and officials, including the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini and Deputy Culture Minster for Artistic Affairs Mohammad-Hossein Imani-Khoshkhu, attended the ceremony.
At the ceremony, veteran stage artists were invited on stage for commemoration and voiced complaints on the current situation of Iran’s Theater.
Dariush Farhang, who returned to stage after a 30 year hiatus with “Galileo”, was honored at the ceremony.
He commented on the indifference of officials towards theater saying that periodic micro-management of art in Iran always hurts artists.
Actor Behzad Farahani was also honored at the event. He also commented on the official’s behavior after appearing on stage.
“I hate to engage into politic anymore, but I quit writing and directing in protest. I will continue acting if I am invited otherwise I will also quit that,” he lamented.
The festival also paid tribute to the veteran stage director Behruz Gharibpur who attended the festival with Rumi Opera Puppet Show.
He lamented the situation faced by stage artists in Iran and officials’ apathy toward the problems artists encounter during their careers.
Stage director Atila Pasyani, Maryam Motaraf and Iraj Raad and theater scholar Mohammadreza Khaki were also honored during the event.
