By Hossein Taheri
The message by the director-general of dramatic arts to the 32nd Fadjr Theater International Festival

By Hossein Taheri...
In the name of God, the absolute owner of the universe
In the spring of Fajr, the theater and drama of life has renewed a fresh commencement, so that the stage would witness a constant attempt and a new hope, the hope that enjoys a joyous rhythm and a soulful tune from the oases of hesitation to the heavens of ascension.
In the book of life, the 32nd Fadjr Theater International Festival begins to grow and expose, for being, staying, and moving in the colorful geography of Iran; from the whisper of descent to the uproar of presence, and from the moments of role to the coasts of throne with some essence from the self to the eternity.
The stage gets colored by the light and play, by the creative youth and their academic homework to the professional old-timers of this land, there are also artists from the abroad with today’s challenges and yesterday’s color effects; there are individuals who grab tomorrow for fathoming and wending, avoiding the dark past, feeling merry with the fresh experiences, and standing at the zenith of hope and faith.
Today, that the New Year’s blossoms have bloomed in the dawn of Iran’s Islamic revolution, there is a celebration. Theater’s new day has been celebrated by six provinces, which are diverse in taste but unanimous in love, on the behalf of our land’s geography. Today the joyful and hopeful men and women artists bring every single thing of life to the stage in order to make tomorrow’s blossoms bloom in everyplace of the world. The directors utilizing a variety of diverse common and local themes keep creating so that the audience pleasantly embraces them in an adequately needed fashion. Hence that cognition and art are the rhythm of our life and time, and our homeland is our authority domain, and the worship is our coast of existence, it is an honor that theater would define our identity and the drama would bellow our presence.
At this point that 32nd Fajr Theater International Festival is before you, you need to know that it is you who keeps us lively and dynamic and we will be glowing with your golden presence as learned audience. On theater’s new day I have to applaud all participating artists and the involved ones who have a role in making this unique artistic event occur, and I warmly shake hands of all the absent artists, since the secret of this art’s immortality is owed to the presence of artists of all walks of life and its secret of eternity is in reviving the breath of every individual of the nation. “There would be all peace till the dawn” (a verse quoted from the Quran) and we hope so.