Prometheus/Plague

Credits: Alborz Teymoorzadeh

Director Shahab Agahi

Summary
Prometheus of Aeschylus is a Titan who – despite the will of Zeus – steals fire from the heavens and brings it to the earthen mankind. He is sentenced to be chained and his liver to be eaten daily. Yet the most thing Aeschylus has not considered –or considered less– is the human being; who ceaselessly erodes or smashes beneath the likely mannered opposition between old and new gods or should/shouldn’t binaries and derived ideologies of hegemonic structures which are organized based on such dichotomies. Then probably this destructed man[kind], burned by the fire, would arise again from his ashes like the phoenix in some manifestation of cruelty or devastation which resembles the Plague – as either Artaud has described or Camus portrayed in The State of Siege.

Previous Shows:

• And/Or/Pro/methe – International Fadjr Theater Festival – Tehran – Iran – 2018
• Promethe/Plague – City Theater – Tehran – Iran – 2018
• Promethe/Plague – International Fadjr Theater Festival – Tehran – Iran – 2019
• Promethe/Plague – Operadagen Festival – Rotterdam – Netherlands – 2019

Awards
• Best music design for “Promethe/Plague” –International Fadjr Theater Festival –2019
• Nominee for Best Director for “Promethe/Plague” –International Fadjr Theater Festival–2019
• Nominee for Best Actress for “Promethe/Plague” – International Fadjr Theater Festival –2019
• Nominee for Best choreography for “Promethe/Plague” –International Fadjr Theater Festival–2019
• Nominee for Best Set Design for “Promethe/Plague” –International Fadjr Theater Festival–2019
• Nominee for Best Make-Up for “Promethe/Plague” –International Fadjr Theater Festival–2019
• Winning the “Music Theater Now” competition in 2018 by “And/Or/Pro/methe”
• Nominee for Best Music for “And/Or/Pro/methe” –International Fadjr Theater Festival

 

Info

Show Duration 60 mins

Language Persian (with English Subtitles)

Audience Suitability Adults

Stage Size Min 7m W x 10m D x 4m H

Venue Black-box

Touring Member 11 PAX

For more information and booking

Sepehr Sharifzadeh