The Director December 4 12 noon & 4:30 p.m. Mandala Theatre Hall
Shamayel Theatre Academy, Iran
Off for Some Days
Seyed Hodjat Tabatabai, born in 1975, licensed in theater acting and directing at Azad University of arak. Some of his products: The kind tone, Bear, Whispers behind the frontline, Rostam and Esfandiar, Being tragedy comedian against him, The ugly beauty, Bizhan and Manizhe, Good messenger in the battle, Snowman's melody, Colonel and birds, Death of a salesman.
Cast and Credits Seyed Hodjat Tabatabai Mahdi Paktinat Hamed Amanpoor Arash Tabrizi Mojtaba Kimiai Fereshteh Hamed Parnian Tabatabai Nooshin Noroozzadeh Nazanin Tafazoli Sahar Rezvani Sahra Ramezanian
The Play The play is based on The lady from the sea by Henrik Ibsen and there was a look to the archetypes and the book Women who run with the wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Events happen in a seafood restaurant beside the sea. The restaurateur's wife is an abstracted lady who hears continually the roaring sound of sea waves. She has forgotten her past and thinks to be a mermaid who has to return the heart of sea waves. Some time ago, her son died mysteriously after the birth and everybody supposes her actual mood is caused by the depression of her son's death.
The Group Shamayel Theater Company is founded in 2003 in Mashhad and has begun producing theater and initiating theater festivals. Most of its graduate students have added to their scientific and practical titles by continuing their academic studies at the university and then to work as professional directors, actors and actresses in the country.
Now a stranger comes to the restaurant. He is a huntsman who has escaped the last night's sea storm and asks Lady to come with him to the depth of the sea. By the huntsman's words, immersed in illusory, Lady believes that before she was living in the sea and has been caught in her husband's creel with other fishes. But this is not the whole reality.
Since 2003 most of its theatrical productions took part in theater festivals in and out of country. One of the important activities initiated by the academy is the play reading festival for the first time in the country that has seen eight versions till today. Actually Shamayel Theater academy goes for producing plays, educating new artist and translation and publication of new books about art and theater…
Director's Note Lady is a part of any human's body, a human whose mind is attacked by a storm of colors and is full of violence and beauties but would be empty of commotion if it sinks to the vast sea of being a human without any fear. Now he can decide… or he leaves or he returns… ship's whistle sound is heard...
The Playwright Raoof Dashti, born in 1984, licensed in Painting at Arts University of Tehran, member of playwrights club in Iran Theater House. Some of his plays are I am Iradj, Fereydoon's son, or tree blood drops on the snow, Humidity, Full of leaves, full of birds, A little house which is not very old and Man's rest to the wall.
Kathmandu International Theatre Festival 2012
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23 November to 7 December
23 November to 7 December
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Kathmandu International Theatre Festival 2012