الخميس, 31 آب/أغسطس 2017 08:38
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.