Talking about the theater is irritating; As he is considered the father of the arts, and the mirror of peoples, with these words the Saudi artist Abdulaziz Al-Mubadal explains the secrets of the journey of the Saudi theater, when she met him.News 24″ In his home, recalling the details that his memory hoarded.
The man who is considered the most important theater pioneer says: Half a century ago, our artistic beginnings were through the school theater; As we derive the texts of our plays from humorous social stories, in addition to what is included in some of the stories of the educational curricula, while the summer centers then obtained their share of theatrical experiences.
And he adds, after that experience, I became more intensive in my readings in the theater, and I participated with the playwrights, until the events of Juhayman occurred and the historical circumstance that resulted from them was called the Awakening, which constituted a different turning point in the artistic movement.
At that time, “and talking to the changer,” a clash arose with the extremist currents who were not right, but that movement did not increase the playwrights except confidence and enthusiasm.
He says that those extremists do not have pure intentions. We lived with the first generation and they accepted the arts. As I do not forget my father’s presence in Janadriyah to watch the performances of the writers, he was encouraging and supportive of me.
And when asked about whether the Sahwa succeeded in reformulating the identity of the theater in accordance with its whims, he answered in the negative, saying that he did not accept the matter at all, because this movement was against the practice of singing, acting, and drawing.
And in the context of that stage, Abdulaziz Al-Mubadal continues that we were feeling a state of suffering in that era, we feel that we are right and they are not that, our environment is beautiful and our artistic messages are also beautiful; We did not carry wrong behaviors; But the intentions of those hardliners were not sound.
Al-Mubadil recalled a number of incidents that his memory would not forget, such as the famous incident of Al-Yamamah University, when extremists tried to impose their power, stir up riots and attack the actors in order to stop the performance of a play entitled “Wasti without Wasatiya.”
In his memory, remarkable personal details about the impact of that movement on the reality of the artist’s life; As he does not forget a personal situation when he was in the Grand Mosque in Mecca during the last ten days of Ramadan, after one of the extremists came to him, saying to him: What brought you here?
At the present time, the exchanged artist expresses his happiness when the secrets of the artistic movement workers were released after the news of the return of the school theater in a professional and institutional manner was broken to them through a recent initiative approved by the Ministries of Education and Culture. The context of the details he carries in his mind indicates that the theater was powerful in showing talents and exporting them to the arena, whether the artist, the musician, the actor, and the presenter. As no one would have been able to discover these talents had it not been for the “Father of Arts”.
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