| farah ashraf |
An Egyptian director, born in 1948 in the United States of America. He graduated from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom with an honors degree in Drama and French Literature. Then he worked for the last thirty-five years in theater and cinema, first in France and then Egypt. In 1981, he obtained a postgraduate diploma from the Sorbonne University (Paris) in directing for audiovisual media (cinema, video, radio). Hassan worked in the Limousin province in France as an actor, then assistant director and then director, where he presented plays by Shakespeare, Camus, and Brecht. Then he formed in the same province a professional theatrical group called "Theater of the Land and the Wind" that lasted from 1975-1980. In 1982, Hassan returned to Egypt to work in one of the state theaters, then worked as an assistant to director Youssef Chahine in the films Goodbye, Bonaparte and The Sixth Day.
He founded the theatrical troupe The Workshop in 1987, where he performed works based on plays by Peter Handke, Daewoo Fu, and Harold Peter. During this period, the workshop tried, through its activities, to form a team that includes amateurs and professionals from the field of theater and cinema, based on a common concept to achieve a new kind of relationship between art and the public. In 1988, El Geretly was appointed director of the first experimental theater in Cairo. He later submitted his resignation in 1992 to devote himself to the free theater, feeling that the institutions are resisting any real change. Since then, his artistic path has been linked to the development of the Workshop troupe, whose stages are described in the paper "The Workshop Road".
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