Al Bilad newspaper In one week… Bahrain loses four prominent figures in the world of theater and music – 2024-02-10 14:38:26

In one week, the artistic scene in Bahrain lost four figures of great value and standing in the world of theater and music: Abdullah Al-Saadawi, Hassan Al-Wawi, Khaled Al-Thawadi, and Arif Al-Zayani. These four were from a generation that was determined to make its role in life and in the movement of art and creativity an influential role, and this is what makes us look at their stage as the stage that represents the spirit of authentic and fertile creativity, and their obsessions were the obsessions of the artist’s awareness of his era, with all the feelings and the most delicate impulses that Many artists in this era are still far from living up to it.
These illustrious names who were not willing to stand in the middle of the road were known for their determination that did not waver and their determination that did not give up. They did what they said and the obstacles did not frighten them.

I remember in the mid-nineties, specifically in 1995, I met Abdullah Al-Saadawi, may God have mercy on him, “who is the closest to me due to our long friendship,” and I asked him a question that expressed the concerns of an intellectual, which was, “What do you read and when do you read, Professor Abdullah?” He answered me as if he was drawing entire characters with details of the suffering they experience on stage. … “I read everything…even when I’m asleep I dream that I’m reading.” When I was sitting with him in the headquarters of the old Al-Sawari Theater in Umm Al-Hasam, a ray of light was on his face as he spoke and talked about the importance of creating serious, conscious work to lift the theater out of its abyss, and that attempts at renewal are always evidence of vitality, and we must break into unknown areas because the doors of experimentation in the theatrical form have been opened. As in plastic art in terms of its innovative tendencies.
Then he gave me the play “Miss Julia” by the Swedish writer August Strindberg, with his pure laughter and endearing humility that everyone knows.
As for the artist and composer Arif Al-Zayani, I used opportunities to express to him my appreciation and admiration for his works and songs at the end of the eighties, especially his album “Saharat Al-Nas,” when he was visiting the Isa Town Club, known for its cultural and artistic radiance and for graduating and embracing many talents. And the artist Khaled Al-Thawadi invited me to his home in… Isa Town in the mid-nineties, and at that time I was in Al-Ayyam’s colleague to show me a number of his plastic paintings. He was a talented painter, especially in works that dealt with the local environment.

As for the artist Hassan Al-Wawi, I knew him with a constant yearning and burning determination for sincerity and sacrifice, had it not been for the illness that paralyzed him and kept him away from art.

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