Corona did not go but the actors came

Theater News Base: When Corona came, a group of well-known actors such as Fatemeh Motamed Aria, Mahtab Nasirpour, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Hotan Shakiba, Hooman Bargh Noord, Lily Rashidi, Afshin Hashemi, Behnoosh Tabatabai, Fahimeh Rahimonia, Roya Mir Elmi, Ehsan Karami and … They were playing in various shows when the magnifying glass virus drove them home.

During this time, many well-known theater actors have not yet appeared on stage. Concerns about health on the one hand and economic issues on the other have kept them off the scene. At present, despite the rising costs of making a play, due to the observance of health protocols and the principle of social distance, it is necessary to leave half of the capacity of theaters empty, and this has caused many professional groups to use their canes because They anticipate that in this situation, they will not be able to meet the production costs of their work.

However, during this difficult period, a number of professional groups have performed their works.

On the evening of Saturday, November 13, several well-known actors came to Shahrzad Hall to do a good deed and read the play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” by Edward Albie.

The play was sung by Mitra Hajar, Hamed Komili, Khatereh Asadi and Ramin Parchami. The director of this play is Mehta Mohaddes, and the aim of this group is to return Ramin Parchami to the field of art. The actor has not been in a good mood for some time due to some problems, and now his friends have decided to remind the art community of this actor and his abilities once again with this program.

This play was read on Saturday, November 13, in two rounds, 18 and 20, in the presence of theater and cinema artists and, of course, the general public.

But the main hall of the Shahr Theater, which only hosted one play during the Corona era, now sees actors such as Jalil Farjad, Reza Omrani, Amir Ghaffarmanesh and Nora Hashemi playing alongside a group of young students in “My Beloved Lady.” . This musical show, directed by Gulab Adineh and based on the famous movie “My Beautiful Lady”, has just started its performance after a long rehearsal and goes on stage every night at 6 pm.

What attracts attention in the performance of this play is the presence of actors who have been less active in the theater during these years. Jalil Farjad and Amir Ghaffarmanesh have been more involved in visual work, and Reza Omrani has been more involved in radio drama and the production of illustrated books. Omrani, who has worked with directors such as Hamid Amjad and Mohammad Rahmanian in the theater, is now back in the theater with this play.

Show “My Beloved Lady”

But despite his prominent presence in TV series, Farjad has collaborated in the theater with directors such as Majid Jafari, Hadi Marzban, Ali Pouyan, Shokrkhoda Goodarzi, Farhad Majdabadi, etc., and now he has his latest experience in this field with Gulab Adineh Poshtsar. Lays.

Amir Ghaffarmanesh is also known to many viewers for his TV series, but he also has a long history in the theater and has appeared on stage with works by Farhad Mohandespour, Hadi Marzban, Ezatullah Mehravaran, Afsaneh Mahian, etc. Many years ago, this actor played a role in the play “Death Comedy” directed by Yade Sadegh Safaei, in the main hall of the Shahr Theater. Ghaffarmanesh, like other professional actors, has a history of attending small university halls such as the hall of the Faculty of Art and Architecture and has a history of acting in halls such as Rumi Hall, Qashqai Halls and Shadow Theater of the city to Vahdat Hall, where he plays in “Muslim” plays. Mahmoud Azizi and “Down the Saqakhaneh Pass” directed by Hadi Marzban, have gained the experience of playing in this hall.

The Chaharsoo Hall of the Shahr Theater, which recently witnessed the performance of the play “The Legend of the Tiger” starring and directed by Sadr al-Din Zahed, will soon host the play “Baba Adam” written by Lily Ivory. With the performance of this play by Elham Shabani, Seyed Javad Hosseini, Javad Pourzand will go on stage along with several other actors.

Elham Shabani collaborates with Lily Ivory for the second time in this play. He has previously appeared on the director’s plays “Blood Sugar” and “Winter Sleep”.

She was recently a guest on the home show network by acting and designing the costume for the “Queen of Beggars” series.

Mehdi Zaminpardaz and Bahar Nouhian are other theater actors who play a role alongside Mehdi Pashaei in the play “Zoo Story”. The play, which is directed by Pashaei, will be staged in the Qashqai Hall of the Shahr Theater.

Show “Zoo Story”

Mehdi Zaminpardaz has been active as a teacher and actor in the theater and has worked with directors such as the living memory of Mostafa Abdollahi with two plays “In the depths” and “The accidental death of an anarchist”, Qutbuddin Sadeghi in the play “Torn Garden of Sugar”, Zahra Sabri in He has the play “Parrot” and … and in the cinema he has done the most collaboration with Mohammad Hossein Mahdavian, the result of which is directing the film “Standing in the Dust” and acting in the films “The Midday Story”, “Lottery” and before They played in the documentary “The Last Days of Winter”.

With the performance of “Burlington” directed by Massoud Mir Taheri, this actor has a new presence in the theater. Theatergoers remember Mirtaheri’s play in the plays of Mohammad Yaghoubi, Hossein Kiani and Parsa Piruzfar. During these years, he had a lesser presence in theater acting, and in the cultural and artistic institute that he founded with his wife, he was mostly engaged in teaching acting and translating books.

Mir Taheri is currently directing and playing one of the roles in this play. Of course, at the beginning of directing this play, it was the responsibility of another director, and then, this responsibility was entrusted to him.

Seyed Javad Yahyawi and Masoud Mirtaheri in the play “Burlington”

Another well-known actor in this performance is Seyed Javad Yahyawi, who appears in the theater from time to time. The former TV presenter, who had previously worked in the theater, returned to the theater after his work on television was banned. He last appeared on stage in 1998 in the play “Terrace” directed by Massoud Keramati, and before that in plays such as “Blue Beard”, “Boxing Club”, “Winter ’66”, “Here”, “Sons of the Sun” and .. He was on stage and now continues his presence in the field of theater acting with the play “Burlington”. This play is performed every night at 6:30 PM in Malek Theater.

Arash Falahatpisheh, Maziar Sidi, Ava Sharifi are other well-known theater actors who have now gone on stage with the play “Bilman” directed by Mehdi Chakri. Arash Falahatpisheh is one of the few theater professionals who has worked as both a director and an actor during the Corona era. He has been teaching acting for many years in addition to his artistic activities. During this time, he has staged various plays with his students.

Arash Falahat Pisheh in the play “Belman”

In the last one or two years, Falahatpisheh has performed the play “Hidden House of Five Doors” written by Hossein Kiani with his students in Rumi Hall, and he himself has been on stage as an actor in the play “Javadieh” by Reza Bahrami at the Shahr Theater.

Ava Sharifi, however, has mostly appeared in the works of the theater group “Liu” under the direction of Hassan Majouni, the result of which is acting in plays such as “Uncle Vanya”, “Seagull”, “For a Fistful of Rubles”, “Dechlorination” and … Is and now is on stage in another show of the same group.

This play, as a work by Liu Sayeh group, is on stage every night at 7:40 PM in Ustad Nazerzadeh Kermani Hall of Iranshahr Theater.

Saeed Abak in the play “The Wishes of a Blind Mouse”

But “The Wishes of a Blind Mouse”, a play directed by Vahid Nafar and starring Saeed Abak, another well-known theater actor, along with several other actors. We have seen Abak mostly in children’s works or dolls. Her performance in the play “I Can’t Take It” directed by Zahra Sabri is remembered by theatergoers.

The play “The Wishes of a Blind Mouse”, as its name suggests, goes on stage for child audiences. Its performance hall is the center for the intellectual development of children and adolescents and it performs in this place every day at 5:00 PM. In addition to playing a role, Abak has also written the text of this play.

But among all these actors, Behnam Sharafi’s position may be more special than his other colleagues. He was replaced by Sasha Keshvadi, the writer, director and actor of “Room”, just a few days after his sudden death.

Sasha Keshvadi was a young director who died on the eve of his performance. Since he was also starring in his own play, the executive team decided to stage the play “Room” with another actor, and Behnam Sharafi, the actor whose name was drawn, in order not to ruin his efforts to play this play.

We have seen Sharafi playing in plays such as “Socrates”, “Faust”, “Anna Karnina”, “All About Mr. F”, “The Nightmare of Hazrat Ashraf” and …

The play “Room”, which is inspired by a real story in one of Tehran’s hospitals during the Crown, is on stage in Sepand Hall.

It should be noted that some of these actors are only familiar to the professional theater audience and the general public may be less familiar with them, but in this short article, our goal is to take a look at the presence of actors who are in the group of well-known theater actors.