Ashraf Abdel -Baqi in an interview with “Rosales”: The successful offer from “Soxier” .. “He performed my life”
The thinker producer .. The artist Ashraf Abdel Baqi, the owner of various theatrical projects, has not stopped since the launch of the Egypt Theater experience on thinking, development and addition in the field of the private sector, whatever the circumstances .. Whatever the decline in artistic production, at the end of 2024 launched his new project & laquo; Soxier & raquo; Which aims to care and host the successful artworks of the theater youth, whether belonging to the theater or music. Indeed, the project was launched by hosting a number of performances on the stage of Al -Rihani Theater, including & laquo; the groom of the sea & raquo; And more more about the project and the decline in the production system in the private sector. Abdel -Baqi said in this dialogue:
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■ Your work in the private sector has continued to delete and add years .. Why did you stop suddenly?
– Because every work was linked to the support of the TV show .. In the sense of our basic adoption in income, it came from television like & laquo; Teatro Egypt & raquo; and & & laquo; Egypt Theater & RAQUO; And & Laquo; Lukanda & Raquo; Experiments were linked to the support of the TV show and not the box office, because the ticket price at the time was only 50 pounds, and this is not enough to cover the costs of the electricity value in the theater, and therefore I do not rely on the tickets, the basic dependence was on the TV show because it bears the wages of the actors and the rent of theater, electricity and water, therefore, therefore If the taxes get half of the box office, I do not care, what matters to me the success of the mass offer without a supportive station and of course I could not continue, so I came to me the idea of a project & laquo; Saksie & raquo;
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■ Do you expect to achieve what you aspire to from this project? Or the lack of success, but I thought about providing an experience that benefits the largest number of young talented people who seek to start to see the audience through the theater well, but sometimes they did not allow them to continue, the project aims to host these successful offers because I am currently not time to form a new group, But if these teams are already in theater and universities institutes, youth centers, culture palaces and independent teams & nbsp; they have offers that have already succeeded and achieved good responses and reactions, these teams send us their video shows and after watching them, these works are agreed to host them in the Rihani Theater, and indeed they were sent. A very large number of offers, which proves my view that this country is a child who has a great deal of young talents that await an opportunity to appear, and what I can present is that I open the theater for them to host without a financial compensation, and I sometimes help them in decoration, clothes, lighting and sound for free and then open a net Tickets, half of the revenue goes for taxes and the other is distributed to workers or electricity, as we photograph these offers and there will be a new station on YouTube entitled & Laquo; Saksier & Raquo; These works will be shown on it so that they are seen well, and with time the station may achieve a material for the costs of & nbsp; anything else.
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■ What prompted you to accept this idea despite the producers’ fear of working in the private sector today?
– not there Something calling for reassurance, and I cannot predict the extent of the project’s success or failure, but the issue is that I have time to start a new project, these young people who I go to see in amateur or university theaters even those who succeeded in & laquo; Teatro Egypt & raquo; And & laquo; Egypt Theater & RAKUO; They are a group that found them from the university theater, Khaled Jalal theater, or & laquo & “&” & raquo; I remember at the time I got their phone numbers and did not know what we will do, I came to me the idea of a program and then we presented & laquo; Teatro Egypt & raquo; we have very talented youth who deserve help and stand with them. Egypt Theater & Raquo;
– Any band after Egypt Theater & laquo; & nbsp; because it will be compared to the Egyptian theater, but these successful teams come with their performances and composition, & laquo; Soxier & raquo; A different project that contributes to providing various forms of arts such as & Laquo; Stand App Comedy & RAKUO; In Egypt Theater there was no artistic type, and we also made a show & laquo; It is a review artistic work that was not available before. We also have singing and music teams. The project did not depend on the theater alone.
I succeeded in providing an exceptional experience & laquo; What happened?! And she made decorations of great costs, if they were manufactured today, you need exorbitant amounts that provided this experience and imagined that it will come behind a material return, but this type of success needs a direction from the state, if an interest from the state occurs in the theater the issue is completely different, while unfortunately there are theaters that have been closed Imad Al -Din Street contained 12 theatrical bands and only the Rihani Theater remain Therefore, they have a family culture that descends to watch the theater & nbsp; and they have 12 teams working and sometimes they present two shows a day.
■ In your opinion, how does the state support the private sector? , 14% added value, 14% amusement tax, and 22% on the basic income is a huge and complex issue, if the state wants to encourage the theater, it will do, for example if we assume that taxes are 0%, I think the state will get more gains unlike the other value, because The theater will work and if these broken theaters are operated, workers, lighting, actors, and sound will work, and therefore all of these will pay taxes and theater will return strongly, but what is the benefit of putting this major value on the product 50% and ultimately and not a playground play, the exaggeration in taxes is unable to produce the product. p ; Come make a theater and pay from your pocket & raquo; For this free, this is not logical, the return of the theatrical movement depends on a decision of the state in England, the taxes are also zero% and of course the whole country is different in all fields, but Egypt can establish a theater movement if the theaters are not closed and transferred to towers, when I presented the Egypt Theater, it was said that Ashraf Abdel -Baqi spoiled Theater and I do not know what I did .. & laquo; Time for commodities & raquo; George Abyad was presenting his work on the national theater and there was a theater on Al -Kassar and Ismail Yassin working together in parallel.
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