Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran

ISBN 10: 0887548199 / ISBN 13: 9780887548192

Verlag: Playwrights Canada Press, 2009

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7878192

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Stories from the Rains of Love and Death is a quintet of interrelated one-act plays written in 1977. Aurash is a Persian myth dating back over one thousand years. The Death of the King is a retelling of Persian history. Interrogation tells a timeless truth: nothing enduring can be built on violence.

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Soheil Parsa is an award-winning director, actor, writer, dramaturge, choreographer, and teacher whose professional theatre career spans two continents. In his native Iran, he completed studies in theatre performance at the University of Tehran and began a career as an actor and director. Arriving in Canada with his family in 1984, he completed a second Bachelor of Arts in theatre studies at York University and then went on to establish Modern Times Stage Company as one of the most exciting culturally diverse theatre companies in Canada. As a director, set and stage designer, translator, adaptor, choreographer, and actor, his work is based on his experience in Iran and focuses on oppression and loss of freedom.

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Titel: Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: ...
Verlag: Playwrights Canada Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New