Theatre is a sacred ceremony

Hadi Marzban, Theatre Director in an interview with festival’s website:
Any festivals in which the artistic crafts are being exposed are good. It’s actually a point of conjunction for different ideas. I think that it’s an important step for improving our country’s art.
Marzban said: to have an effective relationship between young artists and the experienced ones, it’s essential that first, young artists don’t get proud of their studies; the case is the same with the professionals and their experiences.
These two generations could make a nice cultural atmosphere and make masterpieces. Theatre should be thought from heart to heart.
He continued: unfortunately there’s a missing link between us (the experienced ones) and the young artists, which seems impossible to recognize. I have always believed in experiential theatre, which doesn’t mean armature theatre. I have a feeling that if these two generations work back to back in experiential theatre, big masterpieces would be made.
He stated: I have always believed in a non-competitive festival as I don’t consider art as a athletic sport which someone gets a gold medal and others should be satisfied with lower medals. Art is an encounter of different ideas. Every play is a first in its own situation even if that artist performs or direct for the very first time.
Hadi Marzban added: I have participated in the first Fajr Festival _which I don’t remember the year_, but I know that from that point till now this festivals had overcome many obstacles. In recent years the festival’s conditions and organization is considerably improved, especially from the time that it became an International festival.
He said: in making a play we always consider audiences tastes in 80% of the decision making, but it should be considered that our audiences are very knowledgeable people and they can tell apart the good and bad plays. We should consider different tastes and make a play that would be interesting for different people.
Marzban strongly opposed: the audiences detest the plays that make them purely cry or laugh without making them think at the background. They come to theatre to find answer to their questions. Artists should help attendees to make the questions to search for their answers.
Audience play with my play, I should make him contact with my theatre and to make it interesting for him.
At the end he added: theatre has three base elements: artists as the presenter, audience as the consumer and theatre saloon. If there’s a fault in any of those elements, a play would not be made.