No Longer on Tour Director and Researcher: Nazanin Sahamizadehh / Verbatim Theatre Group Playwright: Leila Hekmatnia, Keyvan Sarreshteh Actors: Ebrahim Azizi, Ehsan Bayatfar, Ali Pouya Ghasemi, Hana Kamkar, Hamid Reza Mohammadi, Nasrin Nakisa, Nazanin Sahamizadeh and Misagh Zare Plot Summary: Manus as the first ever Iranian show programmed for Adelaide main festival, is a Verbatim play of eight …
Keyvan is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Tehran. He graduated with a B.A. in Puppet Theater, since then he has worked as a writer, performer, director, researcher, translator, and lecturer. His focus is on Memory, Space, and Location and the correlation between these three and interpersonal relations and political powers. As a playwright, Keyvan has …
Marjan is a Puppet & Object theater artist and manager who lives and works in Tehran. She has worked in various projects in the last 15 years that have been performed in different festivals locally and internationally. Her latest production “Flight No. 745” has been acclaimed in different festivals such as Noorderzon, Theater der Dinge, …
Ali Asghar Dashti is a Tehran-based director and dramaturge. He is the artistic director and founder of the Don Quixote theater group and has directed more than twenty performances, both in theatre and performance arts, since 1997. He was the assistant artistic director of the 36th International Fadjr theater festival and the curator and director …
Microleev is a collaborative project/festival between Leev Theater Group and the NH theatre agency. It The two companies joined forces to organize the festival after the first successful edition by Leev Theater Group (2012). The festival changed the common structure of a festival and resulted in a fusion structure of season repertoire and intense …
Director Parnia Shams Playwrights Parnia Shams, Amir Ebrahimzadeh Dramaturg Shahab Rahmani Plot Summary Mahoor, a 16 years old girl had immigrated from Rasht city to Tehran and in the middle of the semester, she enters a non-governmental school. She gets into a close friendship with the best student in that class and this friendship makes a …
Choreographer Ehsan Hemat About the show: I PUT A SPELL ON YOU is a performance by Iranian choreographer Ehsan Hemat about externally inflicted inhibitions, which is juxtaposing the notions of private self versus a totalitarian authority. Three individuals are locked up in a space where the presence of the supreme observer is inescapable. Their fragile …
MaaHee Theatre Group Director and playwright Fahimeh Abedini (based on Alexander Pushkin’s Russlan and Lyudmila) Summary This is a love story between a princess and a knight; Simin & Farzan. It’s their wedding night when in an unexpected event Simin gets kidnapped. Farzan begins a journey, he meets new people, passes different obstacles and overcomes his …
Director and Playwright Keyvan Sarreshteh About the Show Apart-ment is the story of a boy and the different apartments he has lived in. The boy is the performer, the director and the writer of the play and the play is the story of his life. Apart-ment is an attempt to show a life, as it …
Director and Playwright Marjan Poorgholamhossein Summary It is the story of a woman who fled from Iran as a child in the beginning years of Iran-Iraq war for immigration and now after 30 years, she is on her way back to sell their house in Iran. This show is about her bright childhood and her …
