{"id":10098,"date":"2018-09-17T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T07:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/short-play-festival-to-kick-off-on-26-september\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T07:29:35","slug":"short-play-festival-to-kick-off-on-26-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/en\/short-play-festival-to-kick-off-on-26-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Play Festival to Kick Off on 26 September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preparations are currently underway for the 7th<\/sup> edition of the Short Play Festival, which will run from September 26 to 30 at the Theatre of the Cultural Centre in Kalba. The Festival\u2019s Reviewing Committee had recently selected 10 plays to compete for the awards of the new edition of the Festival, out of 20 plays that had applied for participation.<\/p>\n

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The participating plays are: \u201cShylock wal Asefa Al Sawdaa\u201d (Shylock and the Black Storm) by director Ramy Majdi, \u201cNas fil Reeh\u201d (People in the Wind) by director Ali Bisho, \u201cAl Soora\u201d (The Photograph\u201d by director Dina Bader, \u201cSadeeq\u201d (Friend) by director Mohamed Haji, \u201cRa\u2019s Al Mamlook Jaber\u201d (The Head of Jaber, the Mamluk) by director Ahmed Abdullah Rashid, \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d by director Shamsa Al Naqbi, \u201cAl A\u2019ma wal Muq\u2019ad\u201d (The Blind and the Disabled) by director Amnah Al Naqbi, \u201cFil Arabah\u201d (In the Carriage\u201d by director Yousef Al Mughni, \u201cHalat Tawari\u201d (Emergency) by director Mohammed Al Hantoobi and \u201cAl Ta\u2019oon\u201d (The Plague) by director Saeed Al Hersh.<\/p>\n

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The Festival will also be accompanied by a cultural symposium, which will run under the theme of \u201cShort Plays between Text and Performance\u201d, and will discuss similarities and differences between short plays and multi-act plays. Moreover, the symposium will shed light on how the length of the theatrical text affects how it is directed, recalling the popular view about short plays being literary texts as they are more easily read than performed. On the other hand, the symposium will also discuss how the conciseness, terseness and intensity of the short plays makes them more accessible to the audience of the theatre, and also makes them akin to experimental theatre in terms of direction. Furthermore, the symposium will also lay forth two important questions:<\/p>\n