Monday, April 22, 2019
To Be Public or Private That’s the Question: A Short Note
The Theatre Times: Around fifteen years ago performing arts in Tehran were bound to perform in six major venues including Vahdat hall, Niāvarān complex, City Theatre Complex, Sangelaj theatre, Iranshahr theatre, and Khāvarān Culture House which were mostly built before the Islamic Revolution (1979), with basic standards of a theatre in terms of structure and facility, such as ventilation, auditorium, dressing room, light designing equipment, control room, light/sound mixing desk, and amplifiers.
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This article taught me a little of the structure of theater in Iran, and I found it interesting to think of what it would be like if all the theater publicly produced was that of great artists, well known, and established. I feel as though this is not a sustainable form of the arts, yes if the goal is to regulate, put good shows on stage, and have trusted people be the creators, this can be effective for a short period of time. However with time, there will not be new, young artists to replace the older ones. They will have little practice, and little encouragement. This also brings up for me, who is theater for? I personally don’t mind “bad theater” existing. It’s a result of the freedom to create, which leads to some of the best small-time theater. On another note, I found it peculiar how much was done to make this article non-political. The writer has a note on their beliefs, but to care for the publishers, there is yet another disclosure to attempt assurance for the publishers to not gain backlash at the end. I am curious to how often the publishers make a clear effort to separate themselves from the writers, and how selective they are.
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