"Marooh Palestine" Wins National Theater Festival Award

The first "Marooh Palestine" of the Jenin Theater won the best theatrical performance of the National Theater Festival of Palestine during its first session, which ended Thursday night.

He won Best Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Sinography, in addition to Best Actress Award for Mona Hawa.

Iyad Shetty won the Best Actor Award for his role in the "Two in Tel Aviv" performance of Majd Theater in Haifa.

The festival was organized by the Palestinian Ministry of Culture with the support and cooperation of the Arab Theater Authority, which was unable to attend its meetings because of security concerns and the crossing of the border.

"The launch of the National Theater Festival of Palestine during its first session was an opportunity to renew our vision that culture is a resistance and that the history surrounded by the helmet sets its path to the world. and know that tomorrow will be ours, "said Palestinian Minister of Culture Ihab Bassiso.

"This is the first session of a festival, we have organized special offers, seminars, dialogues and meetings, we have made our presence a message and a challenge, while Gaza is being bombed and Jerusalem is the capital of the blockade and the rest of the geography of the fatherland.

The festival won 8 awards from Birzeit, Jenin, Magd El Kroum, Ramallah, Haifa, Nazareth, Sakhnin and Jerusalem, while 4 other plays were performed outside the competition.

At the closing ceremony held on Thursday night at the Palace of Culture of Ramallah, the Secretary General of the Arab Theater Authority, Ismail Abdullah, addressed the festival participants.

Abdullah said in his speech that "the completion of this session of the festival is a new platform for life as well as for the terraces of knowledge, which are guided by the ways of Palestine, where the apostles, the prophets, the prostitutes, the first preachers, and the creators of knowledge and beauty were on their soil. "

He added: "We stand today to watch tomorrow, we begin to evaluate the experience and plan the bright future, to work together to respond to this call by the Sultan of Culture, which aims to make theater a school of ethics and freedom.