Dog’s Silence (Sag Sokout)
Description: The play represents the culmination of a long term collaboration between director “Arvand Dashtaray” and playwright “Tala Motazedi”. It is an experimental piece that blends literature and performance, developed over a year and a half of research. Though it is non-realistic in form, the narration carries the story through its themes. The goal is […]
Let’s swing a bit
Description: “Let’s swing a bit” is a tragic and complicated yet simple narrative of people’s fall from grace. Where each person who falls contributes to the other’s ruin and absurdity. It’s about those who wash their hands of the world and get lost in the hustle and bustle of the city and remain suspended forever. […]
Let’s Swing A Bit (Kami Balatar)
Description: We are all floating in the balance between life and death, meaning and form, desires and realities. We are humans with stories, now floating most in virtual reality. “Let’s swing a bit” is a tragic yet simple narrative about people who fall from grace. Each person who falls contributes to the other’s ruin and […]
Tin Tin and the Moundas Castle
Description:Tin-Tin and the Secret of Mondas Castle, a brand new theatrical play based on the beloved Belgian comic book characters. Director Arvand Dashtaray breathes new life into the classic story with unique and innovative elements. Witness the awe-inspiring stage design that sets this performance apart from any other. Stand among the devoted fans of TinTin […]
Pink Footsteps (Rade Paye Sourati)
Description: This show is a work taken from the Pink Panther animations, which is performed in a new and modern format like other works of this group. This show is Dashtarai’s second experience in bringing nostalgic cartoons to life on the theater stage after the successful performance of “Tin-Tin and the Secret of Mondas Palace”. […]
Gardener of Death (Baghbane Marg)
Description: Tracy Kennedy is the only reporter who was granted access to interview the serial killer Arnold Crumback two weeks before his execution in prison in Richmond, London. Arnold Crumback murdered 25 women. “The Gardener of Death” is a challenging narrative of a gardener who obsessively, carefully and elegantly arranges murder scenes. The play is […]
LONDON, ROME, TEHRAN, AMSTERDAM
Description: “London, Rome, Tehran, Amsterdam” is the first show of the research project “Reconsider Your Image of Me” with performers from four nationalities, Iranian, British, Italian and Dutch, in line with cultural studies and intercultural misunderstandings. The design is designed with the aim of showing a better image of Iran, which has a documentary structure. […]
RECONSIDER YOUR IMAGE OF ME | AUDITION
Description: The show starts with a director’s introduction. Arvand Dashtaray talks about his experiences of traveling outside of Iran. He states that in every country he’s visited, people have had wrong images and beliefs about Iran, and as a result of this, he started intercultural performance studies in 2013. This is the second part of […]
Zero
Description:ZERO is about how human identity has been reduced to numbers. We are valued by the number of followers or the number of retweets we get. What happens if these numbers no longer count? What if we find ourselves without a number? The performance aims to highlight how boxed in we have all become by […]
The Improvisation
Description: In The Improvisation, the team behind The Audition reunited to push the boundaries of interactive, meta, non-linear narrative theatre. The result is a game show structured as live Improvisation Games. An onstage Director introduces the audience to his current topic of research: Marriage. According to the research a marriage usually has 5 stages: Romance, […]