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The final ceremony of Lebanon International Theatre Festival 2017

Lebanon International Theatre Festival  closed a week of theatre activities with the awards ceremony. The awards reflected the diversity of the program of the festival: clown theatre, street theatre, corporal expression, text theatre, and monodrama , independent  companies, commercial companies, and university collectives. The following countries were present in the festival: Argentina, Mexico, Iraq, Canada, Switzerland, Holland, Algeria, Spain, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon.

Mandinga Teatro from Argentina received three awards: Best Actress for Florencia Moresi, Best Actor for Marcos Fontani and Best Costumes.

Malva Teatro from Mexico was awarded with: Best Director for Hugo Arrevillaga Serrano and  Best Scenography . Malva performed the text  Sedientos by Wajdi Mouawad for the first time in Lebanon and that received the Best Text award.

In addition, Iraqi actor Abduljaleel Sadek was awarded as best actor for his performance in Just Trash, Antonine University was awarded with the best scene design  for the play Picnic in the front, from Fernando Arrabal.

Special mentions by the Jury went to:

The street performance from Iraq for the effort  in bringing theatre  to the streets of Iraq.

The Canadian collective  for their research and documentation on the Palestinian people situation.

The Lebanese University students exercise on Waiting for Godot as their body expression and choreography work were  excellent.