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International Sabancı Theater Festival or International Adana Theater Festival, more precisely State Theater-Sabancı International Adana Theater Festival, ((トルコ語:Devlet Tiyatroları Sabancı Uluslararası Tiyatro Festivali)) is theatre festival held every year in Adana since 1999. It is a joint organization of Turkish State Theatres, the Ministry of Tourism and Culture and the Sabancı Foundation. Many national and international theater groups perform their plays during the festival. Featuring as an annual international festival lasting a month, the festival entertains almost 20 thousand devotees of drama, who are eager to see the plays performed during the festival. The festival plays were only staged in Adana until 2005 and since then some of the plays are also staged at Sabancı University's Performing Arts Center in Istanbul. The "Sakıp Sabancı Lifetime Achievement Award" is presented on the opening day of the festival since 2005, to honor and recognize the role of the masters, who had profound contributions to the evolution of the drama as an art.〔(Official Sabanci Foundation website )〕 ==Festival in 2011== The 13th edition of the festival kicked off on March 27, the World Theatre Day, with an astounding opening show staged by Italian ensemble Studio Festi on the Seyhan River and the Taşköprü (lietrally:Stone Bridge). "Water Symphony" show was welcomed by thousands of people with great enthusiasm.〔(13th State Theater-Sabancı International Adana Theater Festival )〕 The opening ceremony of the festival was held at the Adana HiltonSA hotel with the attendance of many distinguished guests. Chairman of the Sabancı Foundation Board of Trustees, Güler Sabancı, noted in her speech that as people of Anatolia, a cradle of several cultures, they bore significant responsibility for the dissemination of culture and arts around Turkey. Sabancı underscored the Foundation’s efforts to increase the number of art viewers in Turkey and to ensure future generations to embrace the cultural legacy. She also remarked that the Foundation was content to contribute to the promotion of the cultural wealth of Anatolia to the rest of the world. Asserting that the Festival integrates more with the city of Adana each year, Sabancı added, "Today our city Adana is taking firm steps to transform to an international center for arts and culture. We feel proud to open a window to the world through the bountiful land of Adana thanks to the State Theater-Sabancı International Adana Theater Festival." General Manager of State Theaters, Lemi Bilgin, who took the floor at the ceremony said, "We feel proud to organize the 13th Adana Theater Festival this year, an event that elevates human values by way of arts. The Festival, which commenced on March 27, the World Theatre Day, represents the first loop of the State Theater festival chain. We are very happy to present the ensembles from various countries who exhibit the most exquisite examples of their cultures here. As life flows at dizzying speed, such festivals add meaning to our lives. We want to take this opportunity to thank art lovers of Adana for cherishing and embracing arts."Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ertuğrul Günay, expressed the success of international festivals organized in various provinces of Turkey. "I would like to thank Sabancı Family and Sabancı Foundation for their ongoing support for State Theaters-Sabancı International Adana Theater Festival, and to everyone else, who have enabled the staging of various local and foreign works of theater to meet the audiences." “Sakıp Sabancı Lifetime Achievement Award” is awarded to Gülriz Sururi in 2011. Among works performed during the festival are Chinghiz Aitmatov’s unforgettable ''My Poplar in a Red Scarf'' by the Gabit Musirepov Kazakhstan State Theater Child and Youth; ''Electra'' by the National Theatre Radu Stanca Sibiu from Romania; ''Enigma Variations'' by the Vakhtangov Theater from Russia; ''The Crime of Cura Tato'' by the Plankton Theater Collective from Chile, ''Anna Karenina'' by the Anzelika Cholina Dance Theater from Lithuania and ''Malaya'' by the Close Act Theater from the Netherlands. Other performances at the festival include ''The Diary of a Mad Man'', ''Karbala'' and ''Eleven Snapshots from Nazim Hikmet's Human Landscapes from My Country'' by the Ankara State Theatre; ''Bury the Dead'' by the Istanbul State Theatre; ''House of Leyla'' by Theatre Kare; ''Flame Days'' by Istanbul Public Theater; ''Woman and Officer'' by Beşiktaş Culture Center; ''Uncle Vanya'' by Theatre Studio; ''Dress Rehearsal for a Suicide'' by the Istanbul Municipal Theater and ''Azizlikler (Where are we going?)'' by Dostlar Theatre. 461 artists from 17 ensembles (10 local and 7 foreign) performed outdoor shows as well as street shows during the opening and closing of the festival, whereas the remainder of the plays took stage at Sabancı Cultural Center again this year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Sabancı Theater Festival」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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