Arab Gulf Theater Troupe wins GPrix at 22nd Kuwait Theater Festival
‘Tahera’ claims grand prize, ‘Best integrated theatrical performance’
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 30, (KUNA): The Arab Gulf Theater Troupe won the Grand Prix at the 22nd Kuwait Theater Festival, in addition to five other prizes, during the announcement of the winners at the festival’s closing ceremony on Saturday evening at Dasma Theater.
The play ‘Tahera’ won the grand prize, which is ‘Best integrated theatrical performance’, as well as the award for Best Actress and went to Ahlam Hassan, Best Costumes Ibtisam Al Hammadi, and Kholoud Al-Kandari for Best Theater Décor.
The play ‘Tahera’ also won the Best Lighting award, which went to Fadel AlNassar, and the Best Theatrical Makeup award presented by Spark Publishing and Distribution, and it went to Abdulaziz Al-Jrib.
The play ‘Let’s Drink Coffee’ by the Youth Theater Group won six awards, namely the Mansour Al-Mansour Award for Best Theatrical Direction presented by the Arab Gulf Theater Troupe and went to director Muhammad Al-Mazal and the Best Sound
Effects Award and The Best Actor Award in a Supporting Role went to Youssef AlHashash. Also, Let’s Drink Coffee won the Best Theatrical Script award for author Faisal Al-Obeid, the Best Promising Actor award from Al-Anbaa newspaper for the artist Hussein Al-Haddad, and the Best Supporting Actress award for Samah.
The Kuwaiti Theater Troupe won for its play ‘Please have dinner’ the Best Actor presented by the Arab Theater Troupe and went to the artist Abdulaziz Behbehani.
The play ‘Hybrid’ by Ait Company for Artistic and Theatrical Productions won the Al-Anbaa Newspaper Award for Best Promising Actress and went to Fatima Khaled.
The closing ceremony included an interesting theatrical performance with laser lights expressing the competition for the award, while the head of the festival’s jury, Dr. Noura Al-Attal, said in her speech at the conclusion of the festival that the committee was keen to cover the aspects of discussion, exchange of opinions, and analysis of all performances with accuracy, transparency and objectivity in scrutinizing the vocabulary and details of theatrical performances.
Al-Attal added that the committee praised all the performances made by the teams and institutions and the accompanying effort and training in order to show them in a way that conforms to the terms and conditions of the festival, despite some technical observations, but the desire to present an interesting and elegant work was clear to the honorable audience.
She indicated that the committee found some performances that might lack practical experience in some of the vocabulary of the theatrical performance, but they are undoubtedly courageous attempts in which there are many controversies.
She added that competition in the theatrical process is not the goal, but rather a means created by festivals to encourage our passion for this beautiful being called theater.