Tehran International Puppet Theatre Festival (est.1989) or Mobarak International Puppet Theater Festival occurs in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, about every two years. It features

puppetry Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a perform ...

acts from around the world. Event organizers include Rahmatollah Mehrabi and Ardeshir Salehpour. Among the participants:
Dolls Theatre
Kolkata, India * Yase-e-Tamam, Tehran *

State Puppet Theatre Varna State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * '' State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * ''Our ...

, Bulgaria * Puppetmongers, Canada * Marionettentheater Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria * Magisch Theatertje, Netherlands * Belarusian Theatre Lialka, Belarus * Strangeface Theatre Co., Kent, England * Strings Attached Puppet Theatre, Germany *

Cengiz Özek Cengiz Özek (born June 4, 1964) is Turkish traditional shadow theatre manipulator of Karagöz. He established Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Const ...

Shadow Theater, Turkey * State Hand Shadow Theater, Georgia * Figurentheater Vlinders & C°, Belgium ( 1998 Golden Moubarak Award & 2000 )

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* Library of Congress
Poster for 10th festival
Tehran : Iranian Center for Dramatic Arts, 2004. * YouTube
Video
of puppet and audience outside

Tehran City Theater The City Theater ( fa, تئاتر شهر, ''Teātr-e Šahr'') is a performing arts complex in Tehran, the capital of Iran. This complex is considered as the main outlet of Iran artistic theater. It was built with the initiative of Shahbanu Farah ...

, Tehran, 2010.

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