Damascus-SANA

The Cultural Center in Abu Roumaneh, Sham Forum and Qalam held an impressionistic and critical symposium, which included discussing the elements of children's theater and its phenomena, seeking to appreciate their minds, keep pace with their abilities and ensure their development, in which a number of writers and playwrights participated.

The poet and playwright Hisham Kafarneh saw that it is the duty of any creative person working on a theatrical text to be able to absorb the target segment, especially children, and to present them with performances that are compatible with the development of their knowledge, and the actor artist must also use imagination because children assume characters, and are affected by them, interact with them and benefit from them on the strength of their cognitive and cultural construction, pointing to the need to stay away from vulgarity in work that destroys the child's mind and culture.

For his part, the director of the Production Foundation, Ziad Al-Mouh, spoke about some of the plays that disrupt the system of raising children and boys, and the need to work to educate children about them, even if they win awards, and it is necessary to go beyond material thinking in working for children.

While the director and poet Ali Al-Aqbani believed that it is necessary to rise to the level of a gifted and conscious child and know how to think and support what is presented to him, whether in theater or otherwise, in a way that affects his emotions positively, and respects his feelings and talent, and this can be achieved in the achievement of conscious and interactive theaters.

The writer and playwright Muhammad Al-Hafri explained the need to provide a theatrical text that has components that the director can dismantle and link to originality, in addition to the ability of all literary genres to have a theatrical presence in their construction, and this is due to the employer and his ability to create and imagine, and it is also necessary to activate school theater because it provides culture and fun for the child and benefit.

Journalist Faten Daaboul, who moderated the dialogue in the Sham and Qalam meeting, explained that theater is directed to children and caring for them is not an artistic luxury, but a civilized phenomenon that carries a cultural vision and an educational orientation that must be taken care of by educational, cultural and social institutions, especially at the most difficult stage after the war and its consequences on society as a whole and the child in particular.

In a statement to SANA, the head of the Cultural Center, Ammar Baqleh, pointed to the need to activate the culture of theater at this stage, when the child needs to stay away from what occupies him from the foundations of education, the most dangerous of which is what the Internet offers and its waste.

Muhammad Khalid Alkhidr

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