TEHRAN – Stage director Mikaeil Shahrestani plans to stage seven tableaux based on seven works by acclaimed Iranian playwright Akbar Radi at the Chaharsu Hall of Tehran’s City Theater Complex from October 10.
“Glorious Smile of Mr. Gil”, “Slowly with the Rose”, “Death in Autumn”, “Blue Hole” and “Night on Wet Pavement” and two other plays will be used in the tableaux, he told the Persian service of MNA.
Homa Alizadeh will collaborate as co-director to arrange the tableaux, which will be performed with a cast of 20 actors, he added.
Esmaeil Bakhtiari, Abbas Shadravan, Shamsi Sadeqi, Qorban Najafi and Farzin Mohaddes are among the members of the cast.
Akbar Radi (1959-2007) was a renowned Iranian dramatist. His works are compared with those of Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen.
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