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Mehr News Agency, Iran
Aug 25 2007
`Sudalaiyadi' to be performed at Indian intl. festival
TEHRAN, Aug. 25 (MNA) -- Iranian stage actor and director Mehdi
Farajpur is to direct his theatrical dance performance `Sudalaiyadi'
at India's 11th International Theater Festival in October 2007.
He told the Persian service of ISNA that he performed `Sudalaiyadi'
himself in India last year. He added that he used modern techniques
in his act which he perceives as the narration of an ancient myth in
a modern language.
Shima Zarefard and Farajpur have been among the cast in previous
performances. It was also performed by the Orian Theater Company at
the 26th Fajr Theater Festival. However Farajpur announced that he is
going to use Indian actors in his next performance.
Sudalaiyadi means a dancer who dances on the ashes in a cemetery and
is also one of the names of the Indian goddess of dance and love. The
performance narrates the story of one second in the mind of the life
of a monk whose job it is to burn dead bodies at the temple.
Farajpur will also be staging the play `Beckett' at Armenia's High
Fest Festival in October 2007. He says that it is a combination of
all Samuel Beckett's plays and is in the genre of physical theater (a
performance that narrates a story through primarily physical means
including mime and theatrical acrobatics).
Aug 25 2007
`Sudalaiyadi' to be performed at Indian intl. festival
TEHRAN, Aug. 25 (MNA) -- Iranian stage actor and director Mehdi
Farajpur is to direct his theatrical dance performance `Sudalaiyadi'
at India's 11th International Theater Festival in October 2007.
He told the Persian service of ISNA that he performed `Sudalaiyadi'
himself in India last year. He added that he used modern techniques
in his act which he perceives as the narration of an ancient myth in
a modern language.
Shima Zarefard and Farajpur have been among the cast in previous
performances. It was also performed by the Orian Theater Company at
the 26th Fajr Theater Festival. However Farajpur announced that he is
going to use Indian actors in his next performance.
Sudalaiyadi means a dancer who dances on the ashes in a cemetery and
is also one of the names of the Indian goddess of dance and love. The
performance narrates the story of one second in the mind of the life
of a monk whose job it is to burn dead bodies at the temple.
Farajpur will also be staging the play `Beckett' at Armenia's High
Fest Festival in October 2007. He says that it is a combination of
all Samuel Beckett's plays and is in the genre of physical theater (a
performance that narrates a story through primarily physical means
including mime and theatrical acrobatics).