A story of a family quarrel these days

Theater News Base: The play “Confession Day” is Somayeh Ghasemi’s third play as a theater director, the text of which was written by him and is being staged these days due to the culmination of the corona pandemic and the omicran side. Regardless of the circumstances of the society, this play puts a fun atmosphere in front of its audience and tries to recount part of the family quarrels of young couples during the outbreak of Covid 19.

The writer and director of “Confession Day” said about the main theme of the play: “Confession Day” is a fun family comedy that has a sociological look at the philosophy and roots of community problems until it reaches a new psychology of family problems. It explores how a confession breaks the institution of the family and subsequently affects a community. This event takes place in the context of a pandemic outbreak, and the bitterness of the event is softened by the humor of the situation.

Somayeh Ghasemi continued: “Family dramas are always of special importance to me, and in this play I tried to condemn secrecy and lies, which are the key to the collapse of the family institution, in the form of drama, and tell the consequences to my audience from another angle.”

The director of the play “Confession Day” explained about the method and style of performance of this work: The play is a comic reality and has no special form and complexity in the way of performance. The narrative tries to be easy and unpretentious because the story itself presents numerous challenges and unique knots. Therefore, the performance form of the show is real and simple.

The actor and theater director, referring to the difference between performing a play in a private hall, said: “If I had performed this play in a public hall, it would have been completely different in terms of lighting and stage design, but now that the theater has to be Another show was allowed, and due to the richness of the light lines in the private theaters, I just tried to associate a house with the living space. But in the actors’ costumes and the colors of the home appliances, I used happy and jumpy colors for the freshness of the actor and the spectator.

In the end, Somayeh Ghasemi addressed the theater audience and said: “In the current economic conditions of the society and with the culmination of the Corona pandemic, trying to perform in the theater is a very exhausting task.” With all the problems that result from the maximum effort of the group, the fruit is ripe and delicious, the taste of which is very sweet to the mouth of the theater audience. In other words, we artists inevitably understand the theater from the audience. We make every effort to make the audience happy for an hour and to make them think by producing transcendent thoughts.

The “Day of Confession” of Bahman and Esfand 1400 takes the stage every day except Saturday nights at 7 pm on the campus of the Ahura Theater.