SCENOGRAPHY OF THE LOST TORAH PLAY ON THE OPEN STAGE WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY (A PLAY IN THREE CHAPTERS WRITTEN BY ALI AHMAD BAKATHIR)

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Lecture -Faculty of fine arts at Alexandria University

Abstract

This study aims to create a scenographic design for a play entitled The Lost Torah by the writer Ali Ahmed Bakathir, where he formulated events that combine the past and the present and their characters, to find ourselves between the life of the world and the hereafter. , to find living side by side with the dead, truth and reality with fiction to wrap around the profound events that have a cruel impact on the whole world, which is the occupation of Palestine, the killing and displacement of its People , and the connection between it and Hitler's Holocaust for the Jews. He was able to gather within the events of the theatrical performance the most important events, which is the search for truth, justice and equality, whether for Jews, Christians or Muslims, and that was through a play that collected many threads and different people, This design of a special nature depends on creating movements for the display platforms and making them the main focus in the scenes sequentially, taking into account the viewing angles and changing scenes during the theatrical performance, and relying on the movement of the theatrical platforms not only as a scenographical element, but in the context of activating the exploitation of wasted energy or converting it from one type to another, And trying to make the design and the requirements of the elements for the theatrical performance compatible with the basic functions in terms of the interrelationship between the design elements and its spaces, as well as the characteristics of the display area and how it relates to the idea of the play, and an accurate control of the movement of the theatrical scene elements.

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