Who We Are

We are a contemporary theatre founded in 1991 focused on creative contemporary shows drawing inspiration from the various global schools of modern art. In a span of a few years, Al-Sawari Theatre has become locally renowned and has created a wide network of global relations. It has generated a lot of praise and won regional as well as international awards.

About AlSawari Theater Group

ALSAWARI THEATER aims at developing the theatrical Movement along with the experiments of the advanced Country in the field of drama. This requires concentrating all efforts towards working as a workshop that is undertaken by the theatrical lab. Since its inception, the fundamental goal of ALSAWARI THEATER was to concentrate on laboratory experimenting of all its shows. Through this laboratory, many training courses on both laboratory and theoretical aspects of drama, through which modern laboratory exercises on drama were undertaken and subjecting such exercises to its practicing facts.

The lab of Grotopheski, Peter Brook, Arian Monshkin, Agesto Poal, Dr. Jawad AlAsadi, Dr. Awni Kromi, Abdullla Al Sadawi and others received major attention of Al Sawari’s drama lab. Through attention to the body, imagination muscle, concentration, improvisation, study of audio and cinography fields and familiarization to international and Arabic drama experiments through video films, AL SAWARI LAB proceeded in emphasizing the role of the lab in designing the drama person.

This was clearly reflected in all its dramas presented on local and Arab countries level and on experimental basis specifically in the Cairo International Experimental Festivals such as ‘‘CARICATURE’’ which
concentrated on moving the caricature shot in drama.

Also, “Scorial or Bells” which was presented by AL SAWARI THEATER during Cairo experimental Festival in 1993 and attracted positive critical attention by the International Arbitration Committee which praised this drama during the closing ceremony for its experimental achievement. The last drama which won the prize for best international production was “the Gag” for the creative historical magnification it has been shown by concentrating on the theatrical body emerge from unique production view.

In addition to this, the Theater laboratory prepares the young promising generation to give more and more and more in the amateur festivals organized by AL SAWARI THEATER since its inception. Furthermore, the theater exerts all efforts to conduct extensive studies and research on experimental (laboratory) drama. This laboratory/ fundamental goal aims at creation of a new drama sense away from the consumer superficial demands but instead to penetrate into the horizon of meeting the cultural and spiritual aspects of the audience. We start from the lab and experiments… we experiment our bodies always in the experiment of the shows or without the shows.

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The Theatrical Festivals for Amateur Youths

in order to encourage the talented young theatre lovers in our theatre al Sawari in particular and in Bahrain theatre in general, and to provide the theatrical movement with new theatrical generation; the theatre organized its Annul Amateur youths Theatrical Festival. The first festival was organized in August 1993.