Tehran Times Art Desk

@T=TEHRAN -- The 3rd edition of Iran’s National Street Theater Festival will be held in Marivan, a city in west of Kordestan province from October 3 to 6.
Some 183 troupes submitted their plays to the secretariat of the gala of which 34 plays were selected for competition section, the secretary of the gala Shahram Karami said in a press conference on Sunday.
He went on to say that two troupes from Iraq’s Kurdistan will also perform at the festival and the Polish troupe “Barbara” will hold workshop on street theater in the city.
Theater experts Maryam Mo’taref, Farhad Ayeesh and Nader Borhani-Marand will chair the jury of the gala, he added.
Another workshop will be held by the Iranian stage director Amir Dejakam on the sidelines of the festival. Theater expert Mohammadreza Alvand will hold meetings with the Director of the Center for Dramatic Arts Hossein Parsaii, Karami added.
The festival will host ten plays from Tehran and 24 plays from other Iranian cities in competition section.
Mahmud Farhang’s “The Stone Soup” will be performed at the Special Section. Siamak Baniani “Fairy Cockroach”, Rajabali Fallah’s “Bride of Rain” and Mohsen Purqasemi’s “Gallows and Circle” will be staged at the festival’s Side Section.
Morad Aziz’s “Treasure Flower for Theater” and Kardo Aziz’s “My Stories’ Human” from Iraq’s Kurdistan will perform at the festival.
Each play will perform in street of Marivan three times and 15 plays will be selected for the 27th Fajr International Theater Festival.