Alireza Keymanesh

In Praise of Theater (2018) /

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The show through Alireza's window:

It's midnight, and the theater comes alive. After a minute of intense dance theater performance, 15 dancers bow to the audience. As the clapping subsides, the audience takes their seats.

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From a shiny podium on the upper left side of the stage, an actor emerges into the silence and darkness. He crawls towards the center, dancing and muttering words like mantras. With repetitive incantations, he glorifies

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"Theater, Tehran, and Telecommunication."

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Three obsessions that intermingle with joy and suffering, love and hate, becoming inseparable from his being. After three rounds of poetry, the audience's AR-Voting decides the actor's fate:

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Will he repeat the monologue?

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Will he perform another one?

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Or will the theater come to an end?

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Performance Location: Tehran-Iran July 2018 - Mostaghel theater

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CAST and CREW:

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Playwright and Director: Nima Dehghani

Performer: Alireza Keymanesh

Video Designer: Amir Pousti

Music: Bamdad Afshar

Light Designer: Ali Kouzehgar

Costume: Maryam Nourmohammadi

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Other Performers:

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Zhaleh Razbansafa, Mahlagha Ghavam, Niloufar Bana, Morteza Mousavi, Houshyar Ghasimi, Amid Abtahi, Maryam Farahi, Mojdeh Shahbazi Davaninejad, Mohammad Hosein Mirzakhani, Alireza Rashidi, Mehrnoush Nadiri, Bita Eskandar Nejad, Mina Hasanlou, Niousha Khajeh Hoseini, Sadegh Kahani, Mohadeseh Sharifat, Fahimeh Hormozi, Shirin Tayebi, Elham Mahmoudi.

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Assistant: Sadaf Amouei

Production Manager: Mohammad Safar Pour

Photographer: Mani Lotfizadeh

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