Dubai Festival for School Theatre: Students’ creativity on stage

Dubai Festival for School Theatre: Students’ creativity on stage

- Fatma Al Jallaf: The festival injects new blood into the local theatrical movement

- 10 schools and educational institutions compete for the festival's prizes

Dubai, UAE: Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) has announced the preparations of the third edition of the Dubai Festival for School Theatre from 8 to 12 May at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library Theatre, with the participation of 10 schools and educational institutions in Dubai, which will compete for a host of prizes. The festival aims to discover student theatrical talent, develop them and refine them in professional ways.

Through the Dubai Festival for School Theatre, Dubai Culture seeks to improve the artistic and aesthetic taste of theatre students and supervisors in Dubai schools and raise the level of its activities in it, as well as support emerging talent, urging them to continue the path of creativity, and encouraging them to produce various theatrical works as an artistic product. It seeks a cultural industry capable of keeping pace with societal developments, which contributes to creating a sustainable creative ecosystem that cements Dubai's position as a global centre for culture, an incubator for creativity and a thriving hub for talent.

Fatma Al Jallaf, Acting Director of the Performing