TEHRAN -- The Cologne-based Iranian director and playwright Alireza Kushk-Jalali has traveled to his homeland to stage German playwright Helmut Krausser’s “Leatherface”, which is about sick relationships of people in the modern world.
The play will be performed at the Sayeh Hall of Tehran’s City Theater Complex on July 10, Kushk-Jalali announced in a press release on Sunday.
He said that Krausser drew inspiration from “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”, an American slasher film, which Tobe Hooper directed and produced in 1974 based on a real-life story.
“‘Leatherface’ is a dark modern play, which challenges the happy world of the past and hope for the future. It features a world in which people are struggling through grief in the aching loneliness of their sick relationships,” he stated.
“All of us know that loneliness and coldness within relationships are two major causes of violence in the modern world,” he added.
In his play, Krausser proficiently shows that all efforts to create a different world by violence essentially result in failure, he noted.
Bahar Katuzi and Mohammad Valizadegan will act the play, which will be produced by Ashkan Khatibi.
Kushk-Jalali previously staged “Robinson and Crusoe”, “Monsieur Ibrahim and the Quran Flowers” and several other plays in Iran.
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