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Laughing with a Burnt Heart: Will There Be an End to Hatred?

Posted by Baharak Sahami | 25th Aug 2019 | Iran, Review, Theatre and Politics

A successful play is a machine all of whose parts are thoughtfully selected to serve its overall...

They Didn’t Give Us Permission to Sing Love Songs: A Look on Ruhollah J’afari’s Performance of “Richard III Will Not Take Place”

Posted by Marjan Moosavi | 19th Jul 2019 | Adaptation, Iran, Review, Theatre and Politics

Ruhollah J’afari’s Richard III Will Not Take Place is an excavation of real historical events. A...

Theatre of Inquiry: Matei Vișniec’s “Richard III” Takes Place in Tehran – Interview With Rūhollah J’afarī

Posted by Farinaz Kavianifar | 14th Jul 2019 | Interview, Iran, Transcultural Collaborations

About this performance and its director also read Self-Censorship Is a Castration of Ideas: A...

Russia Meets Iran: J’afari, Vișniec and Meyerhold, Partners of Ideology, Traversers of History

Posted by Farinaz Kavianifar | 23rd May 2019 | Directing, Iran, Review, Theatre and Politics

Read Farinaz Kavianifar’s interview with Rūhollah J’afari. On the evening of August 3, 2018,...

Self-Censorship Is a Castration of Ideas: A Conversation with Ruhollah J’afari, Dramaturg and Director of the Play Richard III Will Not Take Place

Posted by Reza Ashofteh | 23rd May 2019 | Interview, Iran, Theatre and Politics

Also, about this production, read “Russia Meets Iran: J’afari, Vișniec, and Meyerhold,...

To Be Public or Private That’s the Question: A Short Note

Posted by Emad Mohammadi | 20th Apr 2019 | Iran, Management, News

Around fifteen years ago performing arts in Tehran were bound to perform in six major venues...

Working Off-Script: Transgender Awareness in Iranian Black Box Theatres: An Interview with Sāmān Arasṭoo

Posted by Farinaz Kavianifar | 14th Apr 2019 | Interview, Iran, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Theatre and Gender

February 15, 2019, Café Markov, Tehran, Iran Sāmān Arasṭoo is an Iranian actor and theatre...

Creating a Space for Repeating a Domestic Nightmare: A Note on the Performance of “You Were Occupied with Your Dying”

Posted by Rasoul Nazarzādeh | 3rd Feb 2019 | Iran, Review, Theatre and Gender

The privatization of theatre in Iran has compelled many theatre directors and producers to become...

The Inner Monster Of Steve Jobs Comes Alive On An Iranian Stage With Mehrān Ranjbar’s Tale

Posted by Somayeh Khani | 1st Feb 2019 | Iran, Review

Written, directed, and played by Mehrān Ranjbar, Steve Jobs was staged from October 18 to December...

Persian Hippolyte: Hybrid Performance Cultures, Hybrid Identity, And Hybrid Technology

Posted by Proshot Kalami | 27th Dec 2018 | Essay, Iran, Transmedia

In 2013, Goosan Artistic Group, an Iranian group of performance artists, created a promenade...

Traditional Storytelling Meets New Media Activism In Iran

Posted by Laura Bisaillon | 8th Nov 2018 | Australia, Essay, Iran, Transcultural Collaborations

In the summer of 2015, I conducted fieldwork in Tehran and Qom, Iran, with a small team of...

“Mischief”: A Dystopia Full Of Sound And Fury

Posted by Baharak Sahami | 10th Aug 2018 | Iran, Review

The first thing drawing my attention before I watched the play was its title. Mischief reminded me...

Acclimatization: Feminist Iranian Theatre Acclimatizes To Diaspora

Posted by Marjan Moosavi | 9th Jun 2018 | Canada, Documentary Theatre, Iran, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Gender

Acclimatization refers to the process by which an individual organism adjusts to a change in its...

“Unpermitted Whispers:” Reflections On The Originality Of “Hopscotch” Performance

Posted by Marjan Moosavi | 19th Jan 2018 | Essay, Immersive Theatre, Iran

Yuval Sharon was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship “genius grant” for...

“Mrs. Pistols” A Requiem For A Dream

Posted by Baharak Sahami | 2nd Dec 2017 | Directing, Iran, Review

Mrs. Pistols is an outstanding example of an Iranian play that meets the intellectual and...

A Report On Iran’s Traditional And Ritual Theatre Festival

Posted by Farhang Farbod | 22nd Oct 2017 | Festivals, Iran, Review

The 18th Traditional and Ritual Theatre Festival was held September 1–6 in Tehran. The festival...

Nassim Soleimanpour and the Manila Envelope Theatre

Posted by Aida Rocci | 18th Oct 2017 | Iran, Playwriting, Review

Seven years ago, a new play challenged the role of the actor, the playwright, the audience, and the capacity of one individual to travel. The play was White Rabbit Red Rabbit, written by the mysterious Nassim Soleimanpour, an Iranian writer who encouraged the audience to email him with impressions about his play.