Constantine Arab Theatre Festival in Constantine
A theatre festival in Constantine, the gorge-spanning city with an organized regional theatre tradition dating to 1970, staging Arab-world dramatic productions that draw on Constantine's history as a designated Capital of Arab Culture and its position within Algeria's wider network of national and international theatre festivals.
Constantine has staged organized, decentralized theatre since 1970, when a regional theatre troupe was established there as part of a broader Algerian government effort to move professional theatre production beyond the capital, and the city's dedicated Arab theatre festival builds on that half-century of institutional theatre infrastructure.