The University Theatre comes back with an International play The Theatre of the University of Baghdad Challenges and Exceeds the Expectations to come back with a public work
After a long time break lasts for about 25 years ago the university theatre in the University of Baghdad comes back with a new look and a big public playwright work within international standard characteristics on the stage of the University of Baghdad at Al-Hakeem Hall in Al-Jadirriyya ,depending on the international language of the theatre and the elements of form and content of the play ,from fashion , theatrical decorations and Scenography within the new non traditional S scale with planned soundtrack, lighting and sound effects and accessories and very precise movement of characters ;in addition to the woven scenario through the studied scenic pattern ,psychologically ,intellectually and scientifically to create an affected scene epitomized the thrill and excitement and dazzling for the recipients to fulfill a flow of impact and empathy and harmony to the audience all that through the play ” The Christian Family”, the play that has been able for the first time in the history of Iraq to attract more than two thousand spectators in the theatre that can have one thousand four hundred seats only, where the university theatre filled with more than the reasonable ,more than six hundred people stay without seats, not to mention those who came to the theatre and could not get a seat including senior officials in government institutions and non –government organization.
Engineer Jassim Muhammad Jaafar, who is the sponsor of the playwright work, attended the play, as well as the President of the University of Baghdad Dr.Musa Al-Musawi ,the supporter of the playwright work,the ex-Minister of Displacement and Migration Pascal Warda also attended the play ,in addition to the representative and councilor of the Prime Minister Dr.Adnan Al-Sarraj with a large group of deputy ministers and general mahagers ,deans and heads of academic departments, and very big crowds of faculty members and students.The follow –up and security officials at the university expressed their astonishment at the vast amount of numbers of spectators in the theatre where they have never dealt with such a large number which necessitated a special and significant effort to arrange the entry and exit of the spectators. Many students ,more than three hundred ,saw the work standing up.The theatre was packed with cheers,encouragement ,enthusiasm,sharp applause to the playwright team expressing their admiration and solidarity with the play which expressed the unity of Iraq and its consistency of all its sectors across the human heritage of Iraq ,embodied in the eternal human symbols in the book of Iraq revealing the eternal heroic epic that had not been highlighted in this way and bright image of the wealthy history of Iraq through the hero of the play ,a character of Christian Wahab ,the Christian man who supported Islam in the battle of Al-Taf,beside Al-Hussain (PBUH) and sacrificed himself for the right against the wrong to be a martyr for supporting Al-Hussain (PBUH) and the right and humanitarian with his mother and wife who did not spend a week in her marriage and then his wife died beside him in an immortal battle ,only for the spectator to discover that the great British writer William Shakespeare had been inspired by the idea of Romeo and Juliet from the love story of the Christian Wahab and his wife who refused to die but next to her husband for supporting the right and Muslims against the wrong.
Minister of Youth and Sport ,engineer Jaafar Muhammad expressed his pleasure and gratitude to the team of the playwright work and the director and the writer of the scenario of the play Dr.Abdulbassit Salman ,editor of the our website and praised the efforts and the efforts of the university in holding this theatrical work .Dr.Musa Al-Musawi also expressed his great happiness and thanking to the team of the play and the great success that the play achieved .He then went towards the students and the theatrical team to take a memorable photo that expresses the academic victory of the university of Baghdad in a public play that serves the Iraqi society and unites it with a creative idea that has been woven from the heritage of Iraq and represented by the young student group from the university .
The ex-Minister Pascal Warda went towards the playwright team and stepped up the stage personally to congratulate the director Abdulbassit Salman ,expressing her admiration of the play and appreciating the efforts of the playwright team and the humanitarian action of the work.
Editor of Al-Da’wa newspaper and the general manager of the Al-Masar Aloula channel Mr.Hassan Saeed expressed his happiness and great admiration of the play and thanked the staff especially the director and considered the play a great step towards the right path of the theatre ,an intellectual constructed theatre.He stepped up the stage to participate the happiness of the success of the play and to greet the director personally .He stated to our website team that the play was world-class characteristic and can represent Iraq in global ,large and great festivals .
One of the spectators of the play was Christian and was crying while he was watching the play .When our website correspondent asked him about his opinion of the play he said 🙁 By God I heard and watched and read a lot about the issue of Al-Hussain but I I have not comprehended it but today after I watched the big show in the play .The message of the play through Al-Hussain and his immortal issue is still full of love,cooperation and consistency among the peoples and religions for human freedom and his dignity that God Wanted for him)
Satellite cameras deployed in the theatre with all its angles so that the theatre has become a forest planted with cameras ,microphones ,reporters and recording devices where more than sixty satellite channels and reporters and journalists rushed and moved to record the play perfectly .Assistant Professor of media Dhiya Mustafa congratulated the director and stated that we usually teach students in the college but what I have seen today on the stage is beyond imagination at all in a way that I felt that students as if they were teachers, teaching us what is theatre .Their performance on the stage changed all points of view and fixed a fact that the creative capabilities of the creative Iraqi are beyond imagination and endless. This goes back to the role of the teacher Dr.Abdulbassit Salman who started from none with the students to teach them all the correct academic theatrical traditions and then surprised us with his students with this great work named The Christian Family.
Professor of media Assistant Professor Dr.Kareem Mishat AL-Musawi at Al-Sadiq University and University of Baghdad couldn’t control himself as he watched the play shedding tears of joy to students who embody heroism and altruism in a highly artistic vision and move towards the director with a stream of kisses and hugs expressing his admiration and astonishment of this play.
The Scholar Dr.Kadhim Muhammad Professor of Public relations at the college of media said that he watched the work in the stages of training and liked and was astonished and today I noticed the show and was really shocked with what our director has submitted and our dear students on the stage in front of about more than two thousand spectators where I couldn’t get a seat and stayed standing there watching and enjoying the show shaking my heart and the hearts of all who watched it The work was directed wonderfully and embodied one of the data of freedom revolution by fraternity, human unity and fighting the injustice and supporting the right against the wrong and this is seen in the central character of the play that set up a cry of freedom in the sky of humanity .the message does not summarize one religion but all other religions .Bless this work that submitted these values in an academic, civilized manner hopping of our teacher Dr.Abdulbassit to feed the university and the students with similar works and human data for its serious human rebels across the Greatest Prophet Muhammad bin Abdullah and his holy family and his brave friends peace and prayers be upon them all.
When the play ended many offers have been submitted to the director of the play play Dr. Abdulbassit Salman to be presented in the provinces of Iraq ,where he has been invited in Najif within the activities of Najif as the capital of culture ,the province of Wasit also offers an invitation as well as the province of Karbala’ and the northern and southern provinces.Some universities invited the director and the executive producer Mr. Hussain Al-Dhakir to display the work .International institutions discussed the possibility of displaying the play in Europe and negotiate around mechanism of achieving that for its importance in shaping the bright image of the Iraqi mind and human thought in the Iraqi personality.
The director of the play Abdulbassit Salman stated that he praised and thanked God every hour of what this work made of a vast coming and thanked the Minister of Youth and Sport ,Dr,Musa Al-Musawi ,Dr.Bahaa’ Tuma for their support of the play and added that the work had included sincere people who worked behind the scenes as if they were unknown soldier such as the creative Fadhal Abbas the executive director .the wonderful Salah Mahdi the author ,the great Mr.Majid Al-Jam’I the production director of the play and the creative Mr.Hussain Al-Dhakir the executive producer ,those have done their best to make this work successful and sacrificed many things .They spent many nights for the sake of the work and were very loyal so I ‘d like to express my gratitude and thanking to them .I can say that the university theatre has returned to its highest levels in this play and in coordination with the presidency of the university there is going to be an annual theatrical programme to display plays for immortal humanitarian subjects like this one which attracted all the sectors of the Iraqi society : Christians ,Muslims,Turkmen,Kurds and many others to find out that our humanitarian path is one and targeted towards peace and goodness.
It is worth mentioning that the theatrical work is one of the most important mass media and most influential by virtue that the theatre sends direct messages to the wide public and face to face on the stage.
The website team accompanied this work from its early stages a few months ago.and documented all the stages with photographs of each stage and had displayed some previously and today it displays part of the show day that took place on Thursday 16-2-2012 on the stage of university of Baghdad at Al-Hakeem Hall in Al-Jadirriyya.
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