World Theater Day

The World Day of Theater (World Theater Day) is a from the International Theater Institute Called (ITI) launched an annual day of action and will take place on March 27 since the 1961st

World Day honors the importance of the theater arts with public events. Every year, an international theater artist deals (in a “Message for World Theater Day”) with the meaning and effect of stage art in a social context. The text is translated and distributed. At the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, World Theater Day has been celebrated for many years with a public event together with representatives of the ITI and the authors of the embassy.

history

World Theater Day was decided by the 9th ITI World Congress in 1961 in Vienna. The dating goes back to the traditional annual opening day of the ITI Festival “ Theater of Nations ” in Paris on March 27th. In the first few years, World Theater Day was celebrated in over 80 countries with special events and public campaigns. The authors of the message for World Theater Day included a. Jean Cocteau , Arthur Miller , Laurence Olivier , Helene Weigel , Peter Brook , Dmitrij Schostakowitsch , Pablo Neruda , Maurice Béjart , Ellen Stewart , Wole Soyinka , Tankred Dorst , Václav Havel , Augusto Boal .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ http://world-theatre-day.org/mainevent.html
^ Chambers, Colin (2006). Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theater. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 849. ISBN 9781847140012 .
↑ https://www.iti-worldwide.org/theatreofnations.html
↑ http://www.world-theatre-day.org/worldtheatreday.html

[1] ttp://world-theatre-day.org/mainevent.html

[2] Chambers, Colin (2006). Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theater. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 849. ISBN 9781847140012 .

[3] ttps://www.iti-worldwide.org/theatreofnations.html

[4] ttp://www.world-theatre-day.org/worldtheatreday.html