A review on Fadjr Festival Needs in International part
Confirming International place of Fadjr Festival

Seiied javad Roshan: as Fadjr Festival is holding in an International form, there is a high expectation from it.
Fadjr Festival is the most important Theatre festival in Iran which has always been highly mentioned by Iranian artists. In this article we are going to mention Fadjr Festival needs in International part. Iranian audience and artists always expect to watch good plays from professional foreign groups in Fadjr Festival and festival organizers try to fulfill this request but we can’t ignore that having satisfaction of all different audiences is hard to achieve.
Why Fadjr Festival is holding internationally?
Exchanging experiences, relationship between Iranian and foreigner theatre groups, introducing Iranian audience with foreign performances are among the most important goals of holding Fadjr Festival internationally. In the first years of starting international part of Fadjr Festival it was hard to get to foreign groups, so it was really fascinating to see any kind of plays from any foreign group, but soon we understood grace is not enough and Iran theatre family expect to see more qualified works from foreign groups.
The world of internet gives us lots of information and improves our level of knowledge, all these communications amplifies our expectations from foreign groups. So the first demand of international part is its high qualification, it means works which can be able to add something new to our experience.
Is it simple to hold a festival, internationally?
First and the most important expectation in international part is the qualification of plays. Festival organizers like to invite best groups to Iran too, it will be a good memory and also a brilliant point in their résumé but we have to accept that it is not all their fault when sometimes audience expectations are not fulfilled.
Fortunately, right now, Fadjr Festival is known as an international festival all over the word and many professional foreign groups apply for it themselves. But it is not enough; actually we have to see what kind of facilities we have to hold this festival internationally. Unfortunately, some of our saloons are not well equipped and this causes some problems for foreign groups.
Actually, when we are talking about an international event, we have to provide it with all needed facilities which can turn it into something more than national event. So we have to try to improve Fadjr Festival technically and qualifying.
In addition, we have some important factors to let a foreign play in, some like; coordination of play’s content with social perceptions, performance shape’s comparison with Iran cultural situation, affordable financial demands, technical demands of groups and… . That’s why it is not a simple job to invite a foreign group. It seems that if we try to invite just a few qualified foreign groups Instead of having various low-qualified theater groups, we’ll have more audience’s satisfaction.
Holding International Competition
Attending in an international festival has always its own grace; foreign groups are also interested in such Competitions. But we all know that Iranian plays will be prepared for festival in a few months’ process and their first performance will be in festival while foreign groups will be presented in Fadjr Festival by a play which had been performances many times before it. Now we have to ask if it is a fair competition or not. Obviously it won’t be easy to judge in such a situation, in another hand; there is no big amount of cash as prize to tempt groups. So, according all we said above, there is a sharp need in having more attention to hold Fadjr Festival in a more impressive and desirable form.