2000 Ft / Student: 1000 Ft (Trafó season ticket is valid!)
Length of the programme: 80’ (without interval)
In Persian, with Hungarian subtitles.
“With Amid the Clouds, I wanted to tell what happened to my country, so I tried to use old dusty characters from our own history, while keeping in mind that the main project was about migration; thus I used the nomadic tribes, always on the move in search of a warmer climate and that was the story of my characters. They too had to travel through the green pastures of Europe, over mountains, valleys and flowing rivers to reach thePromised Land. It’s the show about today’s human beings facing their own identities and their past in their search of happiness.” (Amir Reza Koohestani)
„I think that here – in Amid the Clouds – I got pretty close to my own idealistic form of theatre. In this play, the stillness (though it is about migration, about a group moving from one place to another), the directness and the use of lengthy monologue, with narrators facing the public, remain intact. The dialogue parts too, are stripped of any decoration; thus, the unfolding of the story becomes an exclusive focus.” (Amir Reza Koohestani)
Amir Reza Koohestani was born on 8th June 1978 in Shiraz, Iran. In 2000, Koohestani wrote and directed “The Murmuring Tales”, the play that opened the doors of success for him. The Murmuring Tales received five awards in directing, playwriting, best male and female cast and the for best play at the famous '18th International Fadjr Theatre Festival'...Two years later, his third play Dance on Glasses was one of the most controversial and successful plays in Iran in the most recent years.
More than half the evening, including the entire first third, is a prose poem spoken by the pre-recorded voices of the actors, either over a completely dark stage or brief tableaux of more symbolic than narrative content. Based on myths and memories of the male character, they revolve around symbolic images of water, notably the river in which he was conceived and born, one in which he nearly drowned, and the English Channel separating him from his ultimate destination. (Gerald Berkowitz)
Interview with Amir Reza Koohestani.
Text and Director: Amir REZA KOOHESTANI
With: Baran KOSARI, Hassan MADJOONI
Music: Ali BAHRAMI
Lighting design: Farshid MOSADEQU
Director's Assistant: Mahin SADRI, Negar Nobakht FOGHANI
Technical director: Mohammad REZA HOSSEINZADEH
Administration: Pierre REIS
http://www.mehrtheatregroup.com/
Co-production:
Wiener Festwochen, KunstenFESTIVALdesArts
