Past Productions - 1998

Aurash by Bahram Beyza'i Translated and adapted by Soheil Parsa and Brian Quirt Co-produced with Theatre Passe Muraille April 4th to April 30th, 1998

"...wrings contemporary resonance from a story that's old as time itself."
The Toronto Star

Aurash is a Persian myth dating back over one thousand years. In the 1970s the fable was adapted into a short-story by Bahram Beyza’i, a prominent Iranian playwright and film director. Beyza'i's adaptation updated the myth with strong humanist and pacifist themes. In Beyza'i's story, Aurash, a naïve and human stablehand, becomes an unwilling player in his country’s post-war border treaty. He must determine his people’s fate by firing an arrow from the top of a mountain. In 1998, Soheil Parsa and dramaturge Brian Quirt worked this short-story into its present form, a mixture of story-telling and physical theatre with stirring soundscape and lights. See more...

Awards and Nominations
Four Dora Mavor Moore nominations: Best Lighting (Philip Cygan), Best Sound Design (Richard Feren), Best Direction (Soheil Parsa), and Best New Play (Translation and Adaptation) (Soheil Parsa and Brian Quirt).

Creative Team
Direction & Choreography: Soheil Parsa
With: Ron Kennell, Joan Heney, Earl Pastko, Todd Hammond
Composer: Richard Feren
Lighting Design: Philip Cygan
Set Design: Soheil Parsa & Karen Krupa
Costume Design: Soheil Parsa & Karen Krupa
Dramaturge: Brian Quirt
Stage Manager: Kathryn Davis

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