Aurash (director's tour)
by Bahram Beyza'i
Translated and adapted by
Soheil Parsa and Brian Quirt
Presented at the 20th Fadjr
International Theatre Festival, Tehran
January 25 to February 4, 2002
Past Productions - 2002
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Aurash (director's tour)
by Bahram Beyza'i
Presented at the 20th Fadjr
International Theatre Festival, Tehran |
"...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 Distinctions
Best Direction - Fadjr Festival
Creative Team
Direction and Choreography: Soheil Parsa
With: Peter Farbridge, Ron Kennell, Anna-Mackay
Smith and Andrew Scorer
Lighting Designer: Stephan Droege
Sound Designer: Richard Feren
Costumes: Andjelija Djuric
Stage
Manager: Hilary Unger
Photo of Anna Mackay-Smith, Peter Farbridge and Andrew Scorer by Hassan Taheri
Photo of Anna Mackay-Smith, Peter Farbridge and Andrew Scorer by Hassan Taheri