TEHRAN -- Federico García Lorca’s “Yerma” is being staged by the celebrated Iranian director Ali Rafiei at the Samandarian Hall of the Iranshahr Theater Complex.
Groups of theater aficionados attended the opening performance of the play on Tuesday evening.
All members of the cast were making their acting debuts in this play, Iranshahr Theater Complex Director Majid Sarsangi said before the beginning of the performance.
The cast spent two years rehearsing the play, he added.
Rafiei also delivered a short speech praising his troupes’ devotion to theater and said that Iranian theater is alive with the devotion of such theater troupes to this art.
“Yerma”, which is literaly means ‘barren’ in Spanish, tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain.
Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime.
Rafiei has previously staged the play “Fox Hunting” at the Vahdat Hall in 2009. Before that, he staged “It Is Not Snowing in Egypt” at Tehran’s City Theater Complex in 2004.
He has also directed movies “Fish Fall in Love” (2005) and “Mr. Yusef” (2010).
Reza Guran staged “Yerma” at Tehran’s City Theater Complex in 2010.
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