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International days are marked to educate the public on issues of concern, to address global problems and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity. Each international day provides the community an opportunity to organize activities related to the theme and to create public awareness on the same. Organizations, governments, public and private sectors, schools, universities and citizens make international day a springboard for awareness raising actions. In this article let us check on the observation of World Theatre Day 2023 and the International message and significance.
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World Theatre Day 2023 – March 27
The World Theatre day 2023 is celebrated on March 27, every year. Check the history, activities and other facts below.
History of World Theatre day
World theatre Day was initiated by the International theatre Institute (ITI) in the year 1961. World Theatre day is celebrated every year on March 27 by ITI centres all across the world and by many other international theatre companies. This day is marked by conducting various national and international theatre events. One of most interested event is the circulation of World Theatre Day international Message to the world. A world Stature share his or her reflections on the theme of theatre.
It was first in Helsinki, and then in Vienna at the 9th World Congress of the ITI in June 1961 that President Arvi Kivimaa proposed on behalf of the Finnish Centre of the International Theatre Institute that a World Theatre Day be instituted. The proposal, backed by the Scandinavian centres, was carried with acclamation.
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Objective of Observing World Theatre Day
The goals of World Theatre Day are
• To promote the art form across the world.
• To make people aware of the value of the art form.
• To enable the theatre communities to promote their work on a broad scale.
• To enjoy the art form for its own sake.
ITI- The International Theatre Institute
The International theatre institute ITI is world’s largest performing arts organization established in 1948 by theatre and dance experts and UNESCO. The Institute is dedicated to performing arts. It also promotes UNESCO’s goals of promotion of culture and peace irrespective of age, gender, creed or ethnicity. ITI centres are located in various locations across the world and works nationally and internationally in the areas of arts education, international collaboration and youth training. ITI has over 85 centres throughout the world to encourage schools, colleges, and theatre personalities to mark this present day. Every year ITI organizes the World Theatre Day at the UNESCO, Paris
International Message – World Theatre Day 2023
Every year notable personalities, especially from the field of performing arts are chosen to address the World Theatre Day International message. The first World Theatre Day International Message was written by Jean Cocteau. The message is translated into 50 different languages and distributed across the world to promote the values of art and culture.
2021 World Theatre Day Message
The message for World Theatre Day 2021 has been written by renowned British actress Helen Mirren.
‘The creative urge of writers, designers, dancers, singers, actors, musicians and directors will never be stifled and in the very near future with new energy and a new understanding of the world that we all share are flourishing again. This has been such a very difficult time for live performance and many artistes, technicians and craftsmen and women have struggled in a profession that is already fraught with insecurity,’ wrote Helen Mirren, adding, ‘Maybe that always present insecurity has made them more able to survive this pandemic with wit and courage. Their imagination has already translated itself, in these new circumstances, into inventive, entertaining and moving ways to communicate, thanks of course in large part to the internet. Human beings have told each other stories for as long as they have been on the planet. The beautiful culture of theatre will live for as long as we stay here. The creative urge of writers, designers, dancers, singers, actors, musicians, directors, will never be suffocated and in the very near future will flourish again with a new energy and a new understanding of the world we all share. I can’t wait!’
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2020 World Theatre Day message
The author of the Message of World Theatre Day 2020 is: Shahid Nadeem, Pakistan
Shahid Nadeem is Pakistan’s leading playwright and head of the renowned Ajoka Theatre.
Shahid Nadeem was born in 1947 in Sopore, Kashmir. He became a refugee at the tender age of 1, when his family had to migrate to the newly-created Pakistan after the 1948 war between India and Pakistan over the disputed state of Kashmir. He has lived in Lahore, Pakistan where he did his Masters in Psychology from the Punjab University. He wrote his first play as a university student but became a dedicated playwright when he started contributing from his political exile in London, plays for Pakistan’s dissident theatre group, Ajoka, set up by Madeeha Gauhar, a pioneer theatre activist, whom he later married. Shahid Nadeem has written more than 50 original plays in Punjabi and Urdu and several adaptations of Brecht’s plays.
World Theatre Day message- 2019 and 2018
Find below the links of the internal message of World Theatre Day
World Theatre Day 2022 Activities
- Go see a play and take a friend
- Offer backstage tours of your theatre to the community.
- Collaborate with other theatres to offer free tickets
- Host a World Theatre Day reception after a show.
- Gather a group to write and stage a play in 24 or 48 hours
- Pay tribute to a playwright.
- Organize a theatre festival.
- Write, videotape, record, or blog why you love theatre.
- Announce World Theatre Day on Facebook.
World Theatre Day 2022 Quotes
“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts” – William Shakespeare.
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.” – Terrence Mann.
“Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.” – Willem Dafoe
“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
“A theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime.” –Iris Murdoch
“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.” – Victor Hugo.
“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.” – Alexander Pope.
“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.” – Constantin Stanislavski
“Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving seat.” – Greta Scacchi
“Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.” – Tom Stoppard
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World Theatre Day 2022 Quiz
1. When is world theatre day observed?
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