FAJR FESTIVAL TO STAGE 20 FOREIGN PLAYS
Tehran Times
Jan 19 2010
Iran
TEHRAN — A total of 20 foreign plays will go on stage at the 28th
Fajr International Theater Festival.
Yong Hee Kim’s "Me, One, Anyone" (South Korea), Stephan Weiland’s
"The Last Seemorgh" (Iran and Germany), Salvatore Tramacere and
Fabrizio Pugliese "Frankenstein" (Italy), Francesco Gandi and Davide
Venturini’s "Butterflies" (Italy) as well as a play from Switzerland
will compete during the event.
Four plays from Czech will also compete during the festival including
"The Table" by the Karbido theater troupe, Jerzy Zon’s "The Scent of
Time" and "Phanto- mysteria" by the Teatr Novogo Fronta theater troupe.
Luiz Andre’s "Almost Nothing" (Brazil), Sultan Usmanov’s "Day Longer
than Night" (Tajikistan) will also go on stage at the competition
section as well as at the Nation’s Theater Section.
The Nation’s Theater Section will also host Cennet Selimova’s "Mashhadi
Ebad" (Azerbaijan), Francesco Dennis’s "Tiny Dreams" (Venezuela),
A. Mambetov’s "Kara-Guz" (Kyrgyzstan), Alvaro Arcos’s "Seven Against
Fever" (Columbia) and a play from Turkey entitled "Gilgamesh".
"And God Said" by Avra Sidiropoulou (Greece), "Mignone" by Anna
Shishkina (Russia), "Spouse Under Control" by Yan Wei (China) and
"Colors" by Tsolak Galstyan (Armenia) will be the honorary guests of
the International Section.
The festival will take place in Tehran from January 22 to 31.