Description: A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality. In Virgule’s production of The Father staged on the main stage of the City Theatre in Tehran, Reza Kianian’s performance and Dashtaray’s set design take centre stage. As the walls around Andre begin to shift, so does his grasp on reality. Staged in a time where aging structures around us all begin to shift.
Playwright: Florian Zeller
Translators: Hamidreza Amanpour Qaraei, Maryam Heydari
Director: Arvand Dashtaray
Dramaturg: Marene Van Holk
Cast : Reza Kianian, Saeed Changizian, Marene Van Holk, Sogol Khaligh, Sheyda Khaligh, Behzad Karimi, Parisa Shahvalian
Project Manager: Nuruddin Heydari Maher
Project Manager: Mahta karimi
Assistant director and scheduler: Amin Yazdani Nejad
Production manager: Shahin Amirpour
Script Supervisor: Shima Moradi
Stage manager: Adel Hajizadeh
Set design: Arvand Dashtaray
Lighting design: Morteza Najafi
Costume design: Golnaz Golshan
Makeup design: Maria Hajiha
Composer: Ali Kianian
Technical stage design: Seyed Mohammad Taghi Zahedi
Video artist and teaser production: Pooya Razi
Graphic Design and motion graphics: Behrad Javanbakht
Video artist: Mohammad Sadegh Zarjoyan, Ali Ghiyasvand, Pouya Hashemi
Animation design and implementation: Babak Bigi
illustrators: Denag Malekian, Pouya Hadi Zadeh
Sound design: Rozbe Kamali
Lighting: Maysam Safari
Video Mapping Host: Khashayar Neshay
Photographer: Kiarash Mosayebi
Media consultant: Fariborz Darai
Public relations and advertising: Amir Qalichi
Stage assistants: Mersad Mirghafari, Ali Aghaei, Amin Rajabi
Production Assistant: Saeed Ranjbar
Video operator assistants: Mohammad Reza Qashmpour, Amir Hossein Sear
Costume assistant: Nastsran Amozeshkhah
Graphic assistants: Tahereh Falahat Pisheh, Maysam Safavi
Set Construction: Sajad Gholi Zadeh, Ali Jalili, Mohammad Bagheri, Sadegh Gholi zadeh, Abolfazl Ruhollahzadeh, Alireza Paylvand
Light Design Assistants: Faraz Moghadam, Abbas Ghasemi, Mohammad Javad Pourmirzai Kachalak, Milad vaezi majd
Sewing clothes: Atna Rezaei, Kazem Qaheri
Production @VirguleFPAC | Teheran|Asli(Main Hall) Theater|City Theater Complex|2023