George Ibrahim, president of the Palestine Drama Academy, said Saturday that an agreement was signed with the German Goethe-Institut to start translating a number of modern foreign plays into Arabic.
Ibrahim said in a press conference today: "The beginning will be translated into the text of the play (tractor) of the famous German writer Heiner Mueller in the hope that this is the beginning to translate the texts of the play from different languages into Arabic to fill the shortage in this area.
He added: "We look forward to publishing these translations in the Arab countries in order to inform the artists and actors of modern theater experiences who do not have the opportunity to follow up these modern plays to benefit from them."
Ibrahim explained that there is a great shortage in the translation of the texts of modern theater in addition to the television stations do not show many of these plays, "but hardly exist on television."
The first Palestinian drama academy was opened last September, where 12 students are currently studying and are learning the arts of different theater over three years.
At the press conference, Ibrahim announced the end of preparations for the opening of the International Theater Festival, organized by the theater and cinematheque of Kasbah next Tuesday (April 6th) with the premiere of the play by Tunisian Mohamed Idris and the production of the theater and cinema of Kasbah.
"This year we will have thirty-eight artists and artists from the Arab world and twenty artists from Europe," he said.
"This year, it is decided that the performances of the plays participating in the festival will be limited to Ramallah only because we have not received sufficient budget for the festival this year."
The festival's performances this year include plays from Morocco, Tunisia, Italy and France as well as local theater groups from the Golan, Acre, Haifa and Nazareth.
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