World Theatre Day - 27 March: 27 Maret, Hari Teater Sedunia

World Theatre Day Message
Author of the World Theatre Day Message 2010
Dame Judi Dench - Message 2010
World Theatre Day is an opportunity to celebrate Theatre in all its myriad forms. Theatre is a source of entertainment and inspiration and has the ability to unify the many diverse cultures and peoples that exist throughout the world. But theatre is more than that and also provides opportunities to educate and inform.

Theatre is performed throughout the world and not always in a traditional theatre setting. Performances can occur in a small village in Africa, next to a mountain in Armenia, on a tiny island in the Pacific. All it needs is a space and an audience. Theatre has the ability to make us smile, to make us cry, but should also make us think and reflect.

Theatre comes about through team work. Actors are the people who are seen, but there is an amazing set of people who are not seen. They are equally as important as the actors and their differing and specialist skills make it possible for a production to take place. They too must share in any triumphs and successes that may hopefully occur.
March 27 is always the official World Theatre Day. In many ways every day should be considered a theatre day, as we have a responsibility to continue the tradition to entertain, to educate and to enlighten our audiences, without whom we couldn’t exist.


World Theatre Day - 27 March



World Theatre Day was created in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI). It is celebrated annually on the 27th March by ITI Centres and the international theatre community. Various national and international theatre events are organized to mark this occasion. One of the most important of these is the circulation of the World Theatre Day International Message through which at the invitation of ITI, a figure of world stature shares his or her reflections on the theme of Theatre and a Culture of Peace. The first World Theatre Day International Message was written by Jean Cocteau (France) in 1962.

It was first in Helsinki, and then in Vienna at the 9th World Congress of the ITI in June 1961 that President Arvi Kivimaa proposed on behalf of the Finnish Centre of the International Theatre Institute that a World Theatre Day be instituted. The proposal, backed by the Scandinavian centres, was carried with acclamation.
Ever since, each year on the 27th March (date of the opening of the 1962 "Theatre of Nations" season in Paris), World Theatre Day has been celebrated in many and varied ways by ITI National Centres of which there are now almost 100 throughout the world.
Each year a figure outstanding in theatre or a person outstanding in heart and spirit from another field, is invited to share his or her reflections on theatre and international harmony. What is known as the International Message is translated into more than 20 languages, read for tens of thousands of spectators before performances in theatres throughout the world and printed in hundreds of daily newspapers. Colleagues in the audio-visual field lend a fraternal hand, more than a hundred radio and television stations transmitting the Message to listeners in all corners of the five continents.


International Theatre Institute ITI
UNESCO, 1 rue Miollis, F-75732 Paris cedex 15, France
Tel. +33 (0)1 45 68 48 80 / Fax: + 33 (0)1 45 68 48 84
iti@iti-worldwide.org / www.iti-worldwide.org

WORLD THEATRE DAY CELEBRATION
All theatres, theatre institutions, government institutions, ministries of culture and all theatre
makers and theatre lovers are invited to celebrate World Theatre Day, on March 27th.
In the past, the Centres and Cooperating Members of the International Theatre Institute have
participated in the celebration through:
- translation of the message and the biography of the author in their country’s language(s)
-promotion of the message to the public, especially to the theatre public at large
-reading of the message to theatre’s audiences on March 27th, before shows
-organisation of events such as international or national theatre festivals on or around
March 27
- organisation of special performances, symposiums, colloquiums and round tables
- circulation of information in the media
-giving of awards on that day
- day of ‘open doors’ or inauguration of new theatres
- a national message, written by a national author, parallel to the international message
- distribution of articles on theatre and comments on the International Message in journals
and newspapers
- radio and TV broadcasts about theatre
-special radio or TV programmes broadcasting theatre plays
-a ‘free entrance’ day or distribution of theatre tickets for free
-speeches of eminent personalities
-popular balls, fairs, processions, street theatre performances
- special posters
-edition of a special stamp
-charity performances for organisations in the field of theatre
-messages put on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
Every fruitful idea to enrich the worldwide celebrations is welcome. There are no limits for one’s
inspiration!
Members of a Centre may also attend the event at UNESCO, usually organised by the General
Secretariat of the ITI and UNESCO.

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