INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL OF TYRE , Lebanon

INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL OF TYRE , Lebanon

Istanbouli Theatre, in collaboration with the Municipality of the city of Tyre, presents the programme activities for the second edition of the International Theatre Festival of Tyre,  that will be taking place from 6 to 10 of June 2015 in the city of Tyre, South of Lebanon.

This year's edition of the Festival will be devoted to the great Lebanese theatre artist Raymond Gebara, recently gone, and he will be honoured during the Opening Ceremony.

After a careful evaluation of the high number of proposals received from all around the world, the Festival will show on the Al Hamra stage theatre plays coming from Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Tunis, Palestine and Lebanon, and a selection of oral poetry coming from Lebanon, Lybia and Spain.

The Festival will focus on Theatre Workshops covering a wide range of theatre aspects and offered to the young theatre community of Tyre, as well as in creating a space where theatre students of the city can share with visiting Theatre artists their experiences in the creative process.

Kassem Istanbouli, director of the Festival, highlights the importance of having important artists as Egyptian actor Ahmad Rateb and Algerian director Haroun Al Kilani, amongst others, visiting the city of Tyre in order to enable the theatre students in the city to gather with them and learn from their experiences.

The International Theatre Festival of Tyre 2015 will be hosted by AL HAMRA Cinema, the Theatre which opened last year 2014 through the efforts of Kassem Istanbouli and a team of young volunteers from the city after being closed for over 30 years. Since its reopening Istanbouli Theatre has organized the International Theatre Festival in June 2014, the International Film Festival in  October 2014 and the International Music Festival of Tyre, March 2015.

Al Hamra is one of the most important theatres in Lebanon, the main point of reference in Tyre for the Performing Arts during the golden age of theatre and cinema in Lebanon, and its stage has hosted the most important artists of Lebanon and the Arabic countries: Chouchou, Duraid Laham, Mahmoud Darwish, Marcel Khalife, Sheikh Imam, Samira Tawfiq, Nasri Shamseddine, Remi Bandali...

Should you wish to see a short movie on the rehabilitation of Al Hamra Cinema, please watch this link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6kzanx1xA8&feature=youtu.be

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