The show was presented at the Dual Theatre Festival

«The window». About waiting for a flash in the darkness

"The Window" starred Islam Abdel Shafie and Radwa Hassan. From the source

The sixth session of the Dibba Al-Hisn Festival for Bilateral Theater witnessed the day before yesterday, the Egyptian play «The Window» directed by Mohamed Morsi, performed by Islam Abdel Shafie and Radwa Hassan.

In the "window" taken from a text by the Polish Ireniusz Iridinsky, the "husband" suddenly notices the flash of a match in the window of the house next door, which he knows is empty of people, so he remains nailed in place waiting for a second flash, the "wife" is annoyed by her husband's wandering and staying for days next to the window, and begins to ask him questions about what occupies him and what he aspires to, but he remains focused on facing the window in a state of stalemate, and the wife becomes suspicious and angry, before she learns that her husband is waiting in the hope that the flash of a lute will be repeated Matches in the darkness of the house next to their house.

In a critical seminar on the show, Egyptian critic Dr. Essam El-Din Aboulela said that the script of the play was originally written to be presented on the radio. Speakers praised the scenography of the show and the performance of the actors involved in the work.

The training program for the third day of the festival, organized by the Theater Department at the Department of Culture in Sharjah, witnessed a training workshop entitled "Principles of Directing in School Theater", supervised by Moroccan playwright Sofiane Massoudi.

As part of the activities of the third day of the festival, a closing session was organized for the "Eighteenth Sharjah Forum for Arab Theater", which came this year under the title "Theater and Music". The first intervention was entitled "Music in Arab Theater... Any Presence" by Moroccan artist Rachid Bromi, who recorded a series of critical observations on the ways music is used in Arab theater experiences.

Under the title "Father of Arts and Music... The play Taqasim on the amber as a model» The researcher Raad Khalaf reviewed his personal experience in composing the musical material accompanying a play directed by Jawad Al-Asadi.

On the material and technical challenges that rise in the face of any attempt to make a musical theatrical show, Egyptian director Hani Afifi spoke in an intervention entitled "Theater and Music... Radiances and challenges", proceeding from his personal experience.

The last intervention was entitled "Music and Questions of Rooting and Modernization in Arab Theater... Moroccan Abdelmajid Fneich reviewed the experiences of playwrights in his country, who deliberately employed traditional music with its melodies and instruments to formulate a local identity for their theatrical performances, pointing out that the oriental musical scale has its own specificity that must be paid attention to when investing music theatrically.

• Participants in the applied symposium praised the scenography of the show and the performance of the actors.