International Sabancı Theater Festival
| State Theater-Sabancı International Adana Theater Festival Devlet Tiyatroları Sabancı Uluslararası Tiyatro Festivali |
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| Genre | Theatre |
| Begins | March 27 |
| Ends | April 30 |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Location(s) | Adana, Turkey |
| Inaugurated | 1999 |
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International Sabancı Theater Festival or International Adana Theater Festival, more precisely State Theater-Sabancı International Adana Theater Festival, (Turkish: 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.
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.
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,
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