The gradual explosion of the mind takes place

Fars News Agency, Cinema and Theater Group: “Massoud Aghli” and “Mahsa Ghafourian” both in their careers as playwrights, directors and actors have now become masters of the production and performance of realist societies. I do not mean the scope of social theater as a genre or theatrical style, but rather refers to works in which social issues and family relationships or friendship take precedence. I mean themes that are social.

I have known “Mahsa Ghafourian” since the performance of “Two Breaks in Favor of Barcelona” and how much her collaboration with Massoud Aqli and their common view on the subject in this play has matched. “The morning glow of the planet Venus” is one of those things that I believe became fashionable in Iran with “Mohammad Yaghoubi”. He answered well. It was a mirror of the prosperous Iranian society and human relations that Iranian cinema had already begun. It was a bit youthful and funny. Of course, he did not have that much cinematic glamor, but he was able to compete with it, and in some cases even better than his cinematic examples.

“Mahsa Ghafourian” has written her own examples in this field in Mashhad during this decade and she has been really successful. Perhaps this new collaboration with “Massoud Aqli” can be considered as a kind of renewal of the same examples of his previous works, which have now reached a new level of repetition with the help of Aqli’s pen and directing. Yes, this collaboration was probably an attempt for both Massoud and Mahsa to use each other’s experience and skills to complete their approach, which worked well.

The drama of Massoud and Mahsa has a simple and progressive classic narrative. Its tone is modern. In fact, the classical form of the drama is mounted on a modern language to narrate a modern-day subject that immerses the audience in a standard trick in their own world. You will first get acquainted with the friendly and family relationships of some young people. Memories and behaviors that are supposed to entertain you a little so that Masoud Aqli can perform his theater for you as he wants.

He does not even like drama to distract you with a little joke and laughter so that he does not understand how you are entering the abyss of the life of his protagonist; This is how the tragedy of “Morning Shine…” becomes shocking and impressive at the end of its few minutes. The Shines have been able to prepare the story and drama well to reach this end point. Their efforts to update the concepts in Iranian society and to equate it with a global event and in connection with the war have also led to a deeper human structure and, of course, more generally. But besides these, the joy of this quiet narrative from the beginning and reaching that final explosion should be considered the strength of what he knows well in both writing and performance.

Together with the protagonist, we enter a world of change with events and happenings, and as time goes by, these disturbances become more and more visible in the imagination of the female protagonist of “Shine…”. be feeled more. And what is enjoyable in Massoud Aqli’s theater; The explosion is gradual. The spectator can see this confusion to the point of exploding and committing a horrible act in Massoud Aqli’s play. This feature is enjoyable in the drama “Mahsa Ghafourian”.

It can be shown, for example, in the scene of a woman being alone with her father and eating. The action of the disturbed and sick mind event in this scene, while strange, seems real. Do you know why? Because the show has so far done a logical job of representing the troubled mind of its hero. Which is enjoyable to receive and accompany.

“Shine…” is a good show. It proceeds slowly and must be slowly injected into the mind and psyche of its audience to be shocked by the end of its explosion. But for all its merits, it could have been better narrated in its first forty-five minutes; “Shine…” Until the Arab man comes and as far as he wants to introduce his world to us, it is better that he has something more to engage us with. Maybe if he laughs more at his jokes. Maybe if the event whispers and something happens sooner and…

There is an important point about “Shine 2” that is related to both its drama and its performance: “Mahsa Ghafourian”! Mahsa’s artistic ambition can be seen everywhere in “Shine”. He started this ambition from a drama that I do not know whether “Masoud Aqli” has fought for the benefit of his theater and his group or not! The ambition that Mahsa has willingly or unwillingly imposed on the performance of this theater, and incidentally, this feature has made “Shine 2” a good play. But it’s a good show for the writer, the director, the actors and the cast, more than anything else, it’s showing off the talent of a playwright-actor. An ostentation that, with a little exaggeration, can be described as admirable. Mahsa wrote “Shine 2” in such a way that everything and every moment is dependent on her.

She is both a character who plays and Mahsa Ghafourian is an actress and Mahsa is a writer. Nowhere in his drama does he allow other characters to find value and credibility as a strong dramatic character. The presence of all of them is dependent and influenced by the presence of the female character that she plays. In the world of grief, no one can influence even the smallest measure of his importance, priority and centrality, and there is no room at all for an actor to show himself in this play. Therefore, Shine is dominated by the writer-actress Behna “Mahsa Ghafourian”. An artistic domination that only the “Massoud Aqli” as a director wanted to reduce its power; I guess Massoud also cleverly allowed his colleague’s artistic ambition to emerge.

“Mahsa Ghafourian” was extraordinary in “Two to One in Favor of Barcelona” a few years ago. It still shines in “The Glow of Venus ؛”; Whether as a playwright or as an actor. An actor who knows this way of working well; What about “Shine 2”, which he wrote for himself and carefully, and no one will be able to play it well on his own.

Author: Mehdi Nasiri

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