A note on the show “Manesh” directed by Kyomarth Moradi/ Stop this in your strange homeland*

Charso Press: People find meaning with their stories. The story of everyone’s life makes their past up to today. All the losses, ups and downs, reconciliations and enmities lead us to the path we have to choose. Between staying and going and sometimes between being and not being. Perhaps, the biggest impossible wish of a person is that all events happen according to his will, that all wars turn to peace and friendship according to his will, that all homesickness ends and that a person no longer feels strange; with no one, with nowhere; But this is the truth of the world. That everything is not in our control and we have the ultimate authority to choose in the existing conditions and these decisions are not always easy. Sometimes we have to choose between life and death and even between living and surviving. They say that homelessness is when you are in another homeland, but I think that homelessness starts from the moment you can no longer be one with your homeland. look away; See yourself far away from everything that was once your refuge in your homeland; From your loved ones and even away from yourself. It is the losses and distances that make a person wander and one day this wandering becomes a decision in your heart that doesn’t seem to come from your heart, but sometimes there is no choice but to go to live and even harder to find another place where you can Survive it! Like all those who were separated from their homes and families by war and blackness, force and bigotry, they went to a place where there may be no news of death at the hands of war, a place where unkindness will not squeeze their throats and the bitterness of hatred will not drown them. “Manche” is the story of our wandering; The story of three people, each from a different part of the world, whose life paths have now become the same, because all three of them have taken refuge from the place that was once their refuge, to a faraway place that has no resemblance to a refuge. All three of them, like all the refugees in the world, have lost a loved one, a homeland, and maybe their lucky star, and now they want, or rather, they have to throw their hearts and souls into the sea to find their star. The play is taken from the play “People of Kale” which was written by Payam Larian and Kiyomarth Moradi made changes in the plan, approach and name of the play.. The story takes place in Camp Calais, a place in France from which the only way to escape is to cross the English Channel and reach the island..
Migration is not an issue that Kiyomarth Moradi has addressed for the first time; If we take a look at his career, we can see that he is concerned with immigration and the story of immigrants, and that is why he is staging a show for the third time that depicts the bitter truth of people who migrate to another place due to economic, social and political unrest. Hoping to find an opening of hope and peace. However, Moradi’s show did not go towards being repetitive and clumsy, and by the way, it is a theater different from all his other works and many of the shows that have been staged recently. Kiyomarth Moradi has shown off his art and knowledge in this work in thoughtful mise-en-scenes and by depicting the Calais camp using appropriate lighting and combining it with music and color.. The music of the show beautifully serves the mood of the story and characters and the result of the harmonious combination of light and color with it; It is the image of Calais and the Manche Canal that is imprinted on the stage, and this delicate closure of the geography of the story makes the flow of the play and events more tangible and believable for the live audience. In addition to all this, the dominant performance of the actors of the “Manesh” theater attracts the attention of the audience, because this time they will see a different performance of Sam Derakhshani in the role of “Khadive”.» He sees that it may be considered a turning point in his acting career. Good acting by Mehdi Hosseininia in the role of “Ceylon” and Nazanin Karimi in the role ““Lavia” along with other factors have joined hands so that “Manesh” theater these days will attract the audience interested in theater to Shahrazad hall..