Theatrical Plays Shows & International Participation
AlSawari Theater Theatrical Play Shows (1991-2023)
Year 2025
- Play: The So-Called “By Chance” (Al-Mad‘u Sudfah)
- Written by: Yusuf Al-Hamdan
- Directed by: Ibrahim Mansi
Year 2024
- Play: Hot Coffee (Qahwa Sakhinah)
- Written by: Abdullah Al-Sa‘dawi
- Directed by: Ibrahim Khalfan
- Performance: Presented ضمن the 13th edition of the Al-Sawari Youth Theatre Festival.
- Play: The Institution (Al-Mu’assasa)
- Written by: Antonio Buero Vallejo
- Directed by: Isa Sandid
- Local Participation: Participated in the 3rd Bahrain Theatre Festival
- Awards:
- Best Leading Actor Award: Omar Al-Saeedi
- Best Supporting Actor Award (Jointly): Kamil Al-Busaidi
- Best Supporting Actress Award: Alia Ibrahim
- Outstanding Ensemble Performance Award
- International Participation: Selected to participate in the 15th edition of the Arab Theatre Festival – Muscat, Sultanate of Oman – 2025
- Play: Moksha
- Written by: Isa Al-Durazi
- Directed by: Ali Adel
- Performance: Presented ضمن the 13th edition of the Al-Sawari Youth Theatre Festival
- Play: The Journey Began (Bada’at Al-Rihla)
- Original Text by: Saadallah Wannous
- Adapted & Directed by: Noor Hameed
- Performance: Opened the 13th edition of the Al-Sawari Youth Theatre Festival
Year 2023
- Play: A Child Excess to Requirement (Tifl Zayed ‘an Al-Hajah)
- Written by: Abdul Fattah Qalaji
- Directed by: Ibrahim Khalfan
- Participation & Awards: Participated in the 2nd Bahrain Theatre Festival, where it won:
- Best Scenography Award (Khalid Al-Ruwaie)
- Best Leading Actress Award (Reem Wanoos)
- Play: The Master and the Slave (Al-Sayyid wal-‘Abd)
- Text Origin: From Assyrian civilization
- Directed by: Khalid Al-Ruwaie
- Participation: Represented the Kingdom of Bahrain through Al-Sawari Theatre
- International Participation: Participated in the Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre – Arab Republic of Egypt – 2023
- Nominations: Nominated for Best Script Award, Artist Ahmed Saeed nominated for Best Acting Award
Year 2022
- Play: Harakiri
- Directed by: Hussain Abdulali
- Production & Performance: Presented by Al-Sawari Theatre on the occasion of World Theatre Day in March 2022.
- International Participation: Participated in the Baghdad International Festival in October 2022.
- Play: Excess to Requirement (Zayed ‘an Al-Hajah)
- Written & Directed by: Ibrahim Khalfan
- Local Participation: Participated in the 2nd Bahrain Theatre Festival. The play was nominated within the competition to select the production representing the Kingdom of Bahrain at the 4th Gulf Theatre Festival.
- Awards: Actress Reem Wanoos won the Best Leading Actress Award. Artist Khalid Al-Ruwaie won the Best Scenography Award.
Year 2019
- Play: Haidar, Writer: Amin Saleh, Director: Mohammed Shaheen.
- Haidar Play Participated in the 1st Bahrain Theatre Festival and won awards for Best Director (Mohammed Shaheen), Best Playwright (Amin Saleh), Best Second Actress (Jumana Al-Qassab), and Best Music (Hamed Saif).
Year 2018
- Play: A House on a Cloud, Based on the novel by: Mohammed Abdul Malik, Adaptation: Hussein Abdul Ali, Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi.
Year 2017
- Play: The Key, Writer: Nour Al-Din Al-Hashemi, Director: Ibrahim Khalfan
- Play: AlHasheem, Writer: Abdul Amir Al-Shamkhi, Director: Mohammed Shaheen
- AlHasheem Play Participated in the Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth and won the Best Actress Award.
Year 2016
- Play: Dark White, Collage and Director: Khaled Al-Ruwai'i, Performed at the troupe's headquarters.
Year 2015
- Play: A Man and a Woman, Writer: Ali Al-Zaidi, Director: Ibrahim Khalfan, Performed at the Cultural Hall.
Year 2014
- Play: A Land That Does Not Grow Flowers, Writer: Mahmoud Diab, Director: Khaled Al-Ruwai'i, Performed at Sheikh Abdul Aziz High School for Boys.
Year 2012
- Play: When Abdullah the Storyteller Was Silent, Adaptation and Director: Hussein Abdul Ali, Performed in an old house.
- When Abdullah the Storyteller Was Silent Play Participated in the 6th Arab Theatre Festival in Sharjah in 2014.
Year 2011
- Play: Top Secret, Adaptation and Director: Isaac Abdullah, Performed at the Cultural Hall.
- Top Secret Play also Participated in the Al-Rif Theatre Festival in 2012.
- Play: Hand in Hand Adaptation and Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Performed at the Cultural Hall.
Year 2010
- Play: The First Page of the Newspaper, Adaptation and Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Performed at the Cultural Hall.
Year 2009
- Play: The Essence, Writer: Abdullah Saleh, Director: Ibrahim Bahr, Performed at the Cultural Hall.
Year 2008
- Play: Suddenly It Didn't Rain, Writer: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Director: Ibrahim Khalfan, Performed at the Cultural Hall.
- Suddenly It Didn't Rain Play Participated in the 20th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre.
- Play: The Path of the Milestone, Writer: Fareed Ramadan, Director: Khaled Al-Ruwai'i, Performed at the Cultural Hall.
Year 2007
- Play: Matryoshka, Adaptation and Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Performed on World Theatre Day at Al-Barah Art Gallery and other locations.
- Matryoshka Play Participated in the Jordan Theatre Festival.
- Play: A Human's Life, Writer: Leonid Andreyev, Director: Hussein Al-Hulaibi, Performed on World Theatre Day at Sheikh Abdul Aziz High School for Boys.
Year 2006
- Play: Night Traveler, Writer: Salah Abdel Sabour, Director: Ibrahim Khalfan, Performed on World Theatre Day at the troupe's headquarters.
- Night Traveler Play Participated in the 18th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre.
Year 2005
- Play: The Last Visit, Writer: Youssef Al-Hamdan, Director: Ibrahim Khalfan, Performed in February at Sheikh Abdul Aziz High School for Boys.
- The Last Visit Play Participated in the 9th Gulf Theatre Festival.
- Play: Rape, Writer: Saadallah Wannous, Director: Isaac Abdullah, Performed at Sheikh Abdul Aziz High School for Boys.
Year 2004
- Play: The Twelfth Hour, Writer and Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Performed in October at the Bahrain Girls' Renaissance Society.
Year 2003
- Play: Three Women, Adaptation and Director: Khaled Al-Ruwai'i, Performed at the 8th Amateur Youth Theatre Festival in 2000.
- Three Women Play Participated in the Arts Festival in Switzerland as the first Bahraini performance in Europe.
- Play: My Fanatic Son, Writer: Hanif Kureishi, Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Performed on World Theatre Day at the troupe's headquarters.
- Play: Portrait, Writer: Ghaliya Qabbani, Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Performed on World Theatre Day at the Sociologists' Society.
- Play: Life is Not Serious, Writer: Juan Rulfo, Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Performed on World Theatre Day at the troupe's headquarters.
- Play: Love with the Taste of Chocolate, Writers: Khaled Al-Ruwai'i and Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Director: Khaled Al-Ruwai'i, Performed at the troupe's headquarters.
- Love with the Taste of Chocolate Play Participated in the Jordan Theatre Festival and won the Best Scenography Award for Khaled Al-Ruwai'i and Mahmoud Al-Saffar in the Distinguished Theatre Performances Competition 2003.
- Play: The Matter Has Been Prolonged, Writer: Walid Ikhlasi, Director: Ibrahim Khalfan.
Year 2002
- Play: The Disaster, riter: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Nominated for Best Director and Best Actor at the 13th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre.
Year 2001
- Play: Eva, Writer: Walid Fadel, Director: Khaled Al-Ruwai'i, Performed in May at Sheikh Abdul Aziz High School for Boys.
- Eva Play Participated in the 8th Gulf Theatre Festival in Qatar and won awards for Best Actress (Rania Ghazi) and Best Scenography (Khaled Al-Ruwai'i).
Year 2000
- Play: Face to Face, Writer: Aziz Nesin, Director: Ibrahim Bahar, Performed in April at the Bahrain Cultural Hall.
- Play: The Bitter Mouthful, Writer: Walid Ikhlasi, Director: Ibrahim Khalfan, Performed in October at the Bahrain Girls' Renaissance Society.
- Play: The Letters, Adaptation and Director: Khaled Al-Ruwai'i, Based on the correspondence between poets Mahmoud Darwish and Samih Al-Qasim, interwoven with poetic texts from various Arab poets, Performed in November at the Graduates' Club.
Year 1999
- Play: The Innocent Child, Writer: Premchand, Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi.
- Play: Light/Shadow, Director: Salman Al-Araibi, Participated in the 11th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre and was nominated for Best Technical Achievement.
Year 1998
- Play: The Newspaper, Writer: Al-Hamdan, Director: Mohammed Al-Saffar.
- Play: Hamlet, Writer: Ivo Bersen, Adaptation and Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi.
- Play: We Congratulate Ourselves, Writer: Dorothy Parker, Adaptation: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Director: Hussein Al-Hulaibi.
- Play: The Window, Writer: Frank Marks, Adaptation: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Director: Ibrahim Khalfan.
- Play: Abu Zahra in His Mouth, Participated in the 5th Amateur Youth Theatre Festival and the Jordan Theatre Festival.
Year 1997
- Play: Margins, Writer and Director: Youssef Al-Hamdan, Play: The Scientific Night, Writer: Walid Ikhlasi, Director: Ibrahim Khalfan.
- Play: Shadows, Writer and Director: Youssef Al-Hamdan, Participated in the 9th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre.
Year 1996
- Play: The Sacrifice, Writer: Salah Abdel Sabour, Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Based on the tragedy of Al-Hallaj.
- Play: The Sacrifice, Participated in the 8th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre.
Year 1995
- Play: The World Turns, Writer and Director: Ibrahim Bahar.
- Play: The Players, Adaptation: Youssef Al-Hamdan, Director: Khaled Al-Ruwai'i, a vision based on Saadallah Wannous's theatrical texts.
- Play: Night Traveler, Writer: Salah Abdel Sabour, Director: Ibrahim Khalfan.
- Play: The Darkness, Writer: J.L. Halloway, Director: Mohammed Ridwan, Participated in the 7th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre.
- Play: The Darkness, Participated in the 5th Gulf Theatre Festival in Manama.
- Play: The Darkness, Participated in Amman Theatre Days Festival.
Year 1994
- Play: The Muzzle, Writer: Alfonso Sastre,Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi.
- Play: The Last Soup, Writer: Eugène Ionesco, Adaptation and Director: Youssef Al-Hamdan.
Year 1993
- Play: Scorial or Bells, Writer: Michel de Ghelderode, Director: Abdullah Al-Saadawi.
- Play: Birth of a Candle, Writer and Director: Youssef Al-Hamdan.
- Play: Kidnapping, Writer: Amin Saleh, Director: Mustafa Rashid.
- Play: Kidnapping, Participated in the 5th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre and received praise from the jury in their final report.
- Play: Kidnapping, Participated in the 6th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre and won the award for Best Director.
Year 1992
- Play: Weddings, Writer: Abdel Haq Al-Zarwali, Director: Yasser Al-Mutlaq.
- Play: Caricature, Writer and Director: Youssef Al-Hamdan, The play was inspired by Bahraini caricaturist Khaled Al-Hashemi's drawings.
- Play: Caricature, Participated also in the 4th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre.
Year 1991
- Play: A Man and a Woman, Writer: Ahmed Juma, Director: Ibrahim Khalfan.
