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

Photographer: Kiarash Mosayebi

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

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 | Tehran | Asli(Main Hall) Theater| City Theater Complex| 2023 | Tiwall