This is why I insist that such experiments must be undertaken in relation to the state, so that the conditions necessary for a viable theatrical experience will obtain. These experiments, then, were without roots and without the depth necessary for their continuity and development. As for what is sometimes called conventional theatre, it did not deteriorate on its own. Its demise has been part of the general demise of Arab theatre. And theatre has deteriorated because of the political and economic disturbances through which the Arab countries are passing.
Most shows aim to make the highest possible profit at the expense of theatrical values.
Most of our theatres contain cabaret shows, better suited to nightclubs. Not one show is without dancing, singing and heap upon heap of crude, even obscene, jokes. The only standard of judgement is to laugh and make others laugh, at anything and everything. Levels of culture have themselves fallen. Economic and psychological decline, in the course of our contemporary history, have also affected individuals, exhausting the capacity, the comfort, let's call it the stability, that permits an appreciation of theatre or art which, rather than flattening human experience takes the form of a sustained creative effort that seeks out the new and the beneficial.