The beginning of Shahrzad’s “One Thousand and One Nights” with Mohammad Rahmanian

Theater News Base: Shahrzad “One Thousand and One Nights” is a new chapter in this series that will host events such as reading new plays, unveiling of newly published works, scientific panel and special events.

With the arrival of the holy month of Ramadan and the continuation of the planning process for holding new events to support professional playwrights and students of dramatic literature, Shahrzad Theater first invited the playwright and theater director Mohammad Rahmanian to unveil and read the plays “Fire to Acid Spraying Ceremony”. And “Chewing Gum” began the first period of the event.

This art event will continue on a weekly basis by inviting artists in this field.

In this program, which was held on the evening of Saturday, April 10, Mohammad Rahmanian, accompanied by Mahtab Nasirpour, Afshin Hashemi, Andisheh Fooladvand and Farzin Mohaddes, performed parts of these two plays.

Rahmanian said about his two plays: “Invitation to the acid attack” was written in 2012 in Vancouver, Canada for a monologue. But it was read only once in Tehran, in the garden of the Qasr Prison Museum, in the last days of Esfand 92, and this is the second time that it has been read on the occasion of the publication of the play.

He added: The play “Chewing Gum” was also written for performance in Ariana Gallery in the winter of 2015, and of course, it was staged in Iranshahr Theater the following summer. This time, under the pretext of publishing the play, we will read parts of it to you, accompanied by Mahtab Nasirpour, Afshin Hashemi, Andisheh Fooladvand and Farzin Mohaddes.

The two plays “Invitation to Acid Spraying Ceremony” and “Chewing Gum” have been published by “Paper House” and under the supervision of Elnaz Ismaili. The explanation on the back of this book states: The two plays in this book, with all their differences, have one thing in common; And that goes beyond the usual forms of dramatization to achieve unusual theatrical tricks.

The special program of One Thousand and One Nights in the form of a repertoire with the management of Mohsen Mirzakhani is held every night at 11 pm in Hall No. 3 of Shahrzad and various works from Mathewodlaport to Ismail Khalaj are read in it.