Actor-Puppeteer Peyvand Sadeghian is a Persian-Chinese-Brit with a background in boundary-pushing theatre. Soon, at the Soho Theatre, for the ‘Cabaret & Drag Lab on 21st July, experience Sadeghian’s world of drag, cabaret, and a Persian Punch & Judy to explore what her life might have been like as a citizen of Iran. Sadeghian is listed … Continue reading
This week on Resonance104.4FM, a visit from Julian Maynard, one of the directors of Station House Opera’s ground-breaking new piece: At Home in Gaza and London at Battersea Arts Centre. Using live-streaming, recorded video and innovative projection, At Home in Gaza and London brings performers from Gaza and London together live, in one performative, yet … Continue reading
Tickets are already selling out in Tehran for Hadi Rozat’s adaptation of Richard Rodger’s 1959 musical and Robert Wise’s highly acclaimed world famous film “The Sound of Music“, which will go on stage at the Vahdat Theater, Tehran. The opera house in Tehran was built in 1967 and was part-based on the Vienna State Opera, … Continue reading
Singer, dancer, stage actress Mahvash was in her heyday in 1950s Iran when women entertainers were still frowned upon by polite society as femme fatale. Lauded as a singer of the people, Mahvash came from a poor family herself and she communicated with the poorer classes with her language, her image and her own sense … Continue reading
Opening in Rome this week and later Florence, is a play written and directed by Ali Shams. Translated into Italian the play draws both on Iranian theatrical tradition and Italy’s rich heritage of street theatre. The name of the play is taken from an ancient manuscript burnt by the Arabs during their invasion into Persia, … Continue reading
Six Pillars 