Sharjah, UAE – The Department of Culture is organizing the ninth session of the Sharjah Desert Theater Festival.
This will take place from December 12 to 17, in the Al-Kahif area.
Six theatrical performances from the UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and Libya participated, specially prepared to be presented to the festival audience.
The organizing committee prepared the festival space in the form of a desert village extending over a wide area.
The performance platform was equipped in the middle of dunes, valleys and tents, and was supported by the latest sound and light technologies appropriate to the nature of the performances presented by the theatre, “the father of the arts”.
The play will be performed by a team of more than 100 actors, performers and technicians from the Sharjah National Theatre Company.
Among them are Ahmed Al Jasmi, Bassem Yakhour, Ibrahim Salem, Ahmed Al Omari, and Abdullah Masoud, while the artist Mohammed Al Amri is directing.
Qatar is also participating for the first time through the play “One Night and One Hundred Nights” presented by Al-Saeed Artistic Production Troupe on the fifth night, written by Ahmed Al-Dous and directed by Faleh Al-Fayez. The festival will conclude on December 17 with an Emirati show entitled “Embers of Tomorrow” by the Kalba Association for Folk Arts and Theater, written by Faisal Jawad and directed by Abdulrahman Al-Mulla.
The festival celebrates the richness of Arab heritage in narration, stories and folk biographies.
Through a daily critical program that includes analytical dialogues in which an elite group of Arab researchers, critics and playwrights participate.
This is to discuss the technical methods and content presented in the presentations.
The festival also organizes an intellectual event entitled “Desert Theatre and the Aesthetics of Arab Folk Biographies.”
More than ten researchers from the UAE, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, and the Sultanate of Oman are participating, discussing the influence of folk and epic arts on the development of desert theatrical experiences.
It is noteworthy that the Sharjah Desert Theater Festival was established in 2015 as a translation of the directives of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah, to be a creative platform that celebrates the region’s heritage and presents it with a contemporary vision through theatre, “the father of the arts”.
This enhances the presence of performing arts inspired by the desert and authentic Arab culture.
