Hassan Moeini on His Directing Experience
Iran Theater- The writer and director of the "Avignon", Hassan Moeini , says that his concern for the nature of theater, its origins, and its relationship with society , led to the production of a work in praise of theater.
Hassan Moeini is a stage director, playwright and the prize winner of the university theater festival, who participated in the stage competition with his latest directing experience.
A production of Tehran, The play "Avignon" written and directed by Hassan Moeini is one of the 12 works of review section of the 42nd FITF "Avignon" was already performed in the Hamon Hall and the city theater.
"The initial idea of writing "Avignon" was based on the opinions of several theorists who said about the way of performing a play and the origin of the play.’, Moeini says on his play.
Hassan Moini considers "Avignon" in praise of dramatic art. The story is about a theater group that plans to prepare a play based on the play "Macbeth" to participate in the Avignon Theater Festival (Festival d'Avignon) in France. "I am interested in theater theories and I would like to write a play based on theories and the atmosphere I experienced during my student days. These were hot topics in the Faculty of Cinema and Theater, Honar University in 2013 during my studies for master degree and such subjects were favorite at Student theater festival in those years. And the debates and discussions that were discussed among theater artists, inspired me to write Avignon.”,Moeini explains.
He goes on to say about hot topics in the 2010s: "In those years, many translations of theories were published, for example, international and prominent theater figures participated at the Fadjr Theater Festival. When we saw a successful director like Amirreza Kohestani regularly went to the Avignon Festival; A festival that all artists wish to participate in, so I felt that a play could be written about this subject. Thinking about all of this led me to write a play in praise of the theater. A show that deals with the concept of performance and its relationship with the audience and circumstances, and seeks answers to questions in the process of performance and not just reaching the result. "
He considered the performance method of "Avignon" to be similar to what Jerzy Grotowski offered in 1968 in the book " Towards a Poor Theatre ".
Jerzy Grotowski was a Polish theatre director and innovator of experimental theatre, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre" concepts. In 1950s Poland, He pioneered the idea of a theatre laboratory as a place where theatre happens through a process of experimentation. This book reveals his experiments as a crux between what we see in contemporary theatre and the rich traditions of theatrical forms from all over the world.
"Avignon" is one of the 34 works that will be performed in the Fadjr stage competition section.
The 42nd Fadjr International Theater Festival is underway until February 1.
