TEHRAN – The veteran Iranian dramatist and director Qotbeddin Sadeqi plans to stage a play on the Sinjar massacre that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out in the town in Nineveh Province.
Entitled “Aziz of Sinjar”, the play will be performed during the 33rd Fajr International Theater Festival, which is schedule to be held in Tehran in February 2015.
“The play is based on documents published about the event and I will blend the real story and my imagination to stage the play,” Sadeqi told the Persian service of MNA on Friday.
He said that the play will be staged in response to the ISIL crimes and added, “Making a response to various events occurring around the world indicates the dynamism of a society.”
A cast of 50 will perform the play, which will probably be held in the courtyard of Tehran’s City Theater Complex, he said.
Sinjar was one of many towns captured by the ISIL in early August 2014. Afterwards, Kurds in the region appealed to the Government of Iraq and the United States for air support to assist their cause.
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