Sharjah – Shaima Mansour
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 08:37 PM
It was held today as part of the events Sharjah Theater Days Festival In its 32nd session, chaired by Ahmed Abu Rahima, Director of the Theater Department at the Sharjah Department, and under the auspices of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Hamad Al Qasimi, a symposium honoring Emirati artist Adel bin Sufyan, the honorable local figure, was moderated by Emirati artist Abdullah Saleh.
Abdullah Saleh began his speech by saying: I am happy to moderate the symposium of the companion of life, the artist Adel bin Sufyan. I entered the theater through the folk arts portal, and at that time I met many Emirati playwrights, and I participated in the first work in my life for six months, but unfortunately it did not see the light, and since that moment And Adel and I are Omar’s friends and companions. Happy that you present him because I saw in him many qualities of humility, sincere friendship, etc., and we participated with each other in many works, and this artist, unfortunately, did not give his due in the media.
For his part, the artist, Adel bin Sufyan, said: I would like to mention some of the personalities who influenced my artistic life, the first of whom was the artist Khadim Khaled, because of whom there was a theater in the beginning, which is the Dubai People’s Theater. From the ruler of Dubai to build a new theater for us, and His Highness agreed, but he grabbed it by his ear and told him that this theater must present a message, and also among the personalities that influenced my artistic life are Yahya Al-Hajj, and Professor Muhammad Al-Saeed, Hassan Rajab and Abdullah Saleh, all of which are my teachers that I learned from all of them .
Sufyan continued: We did not choose for ourselves the character that we present so as not to limit ourselves to one template, and at our beginning we got a six-month workshop from which we learned a lot and endured a lot from it, so thanks to all the teachers who taught us, and it remains an important figure that I would like to mention is my master Sultan bin Hamad Al Qasimi, this man who gives us great love, he stood on the stage and said I must thank you, and the Sharjah theater is the one that represents the Emirati theater.
