TEHRAN, Jan. 6 (Mehr News Agency) -- A group of foreign instructors and scholars is to hold workshops on the sidelines of the upcoming theater festival in Tehran. The 25th Fajr International Theater Festival, scheduled to be held from Jan. 8 to 17, will play host to scholars from the U.S., Britain, Germany, Russia, Greece, the Netherlands, and Poland.

Peter Chelkowski (the U.S.), Joseph Raikhel (Russia), and Evdokimos Tsolakidis (Greece) are to focus on "Dramatic Aspects of Ta'zieh", "Stanislavski System and Its Function in Modern Theater", and "Improvising, an Approach to Directing and Acting" respectively.

Other theater experts, including Nil van der Linden (the Netherlands), Nelson Fernandez and Roger McCann (Britain) as well as Michael Olenick and Tina Kokovic (Germany) are to contribute to the program.

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