Iran Conference (HU)
Apr-29
Ivan Viripayev
IRAN CONFERENCE
Guest performance of the Tamási Áron Theatre in Sfântu Gheorghe
Directed by LÁSZLÓ BOCSÁRDI
In 2017, the Russian-born Ivan Viripayev, one of the most influential and cult plays of contemporary drama, wrote his Iranian Conference, which has since been translated into many languages and performed in several major theatres.
The title and the setting of the play are already symbolic - in Denmark's capital, the University of Copenhagen, a few intellectuals, a scientist and a theologian, a political scientist and a war correspondent, a television presenter and a writer, gather, pastor and conductor, and the Iranian poetess and Nobel Prize winner for Literature, to express their views on human rights and freedom of expression, the geopolitical conflict in the Middle East and the "Iran problem". But the conference, which starts out as an academic one, takes an unexpected turn when the speakers' different world views and ways of thinking, their different life experiences, come into conflict, and the personal life stories and inner struggles of the participants are revealed in the course of the heated dialogues and the revealing, confessional monologues. Exploring the causes and consequences of cataclysms in the world, the characters come to the confrontation between Eastern and Western civilisations and the fundamental question of humanity - what is the meaning of life?
The lecture is a moving spiritual journey that explores the themes of freedom, faith in God, and happiness from different perspectives, forcing the audience to confront the most important questions of our time and the state of our civilisation.
The author's permission was granted by henschel SCHAUSPIEL Theaterverlag Berlin (DE) and Hofra Ltd. www.hofra.hu
IRAN CONFERENCE
Guest performance of the Tamási Áron Theatre in Sfântu Gheorghe
Directed by LÁSZLÓ BOCSÁRDI
In 2017, the Russian-born Ivan Viripayev, one of the most influential and cult plays of contemporary drama, wrote his Iranian Conference, which has since been translated into many languages and performed in several major theatres.
The title and the setting of the play are already symbolic - in Denmark's capital, the University of Copenhagen, a few intellectuals, a scientist and a theologian, a political scientist and a war correspondent, a television presenter and a writer, gather, pastor and conductor, and the Iranian poetess and Nobel Prize winner for Literature, to express their views on human rights and freedom of expression, the geopolitical conflict in the Middle East and the "Iran problem". But the conference, which starts out as an academic one, takes an unexpected turn when the speakers' different world views and ways of thinking, their different life experiences, come into conflict, and the personal life stories and inner struggles of the participants are revealed in the course of the heated dialogues and the revealing, confessional monologues. Exploring the causes and consequences of cataclysms in the world, the characters come to the confrontation between Eastern and Western civilisations and the fundamental question of humanity - what is the meaning of life?
The lecture is a moving spiritual journey that explores the themes of freedom, faith in God, and happiness from different perspectives, forcing the audience to confront the most important questions of our time and the state of our civilisation.
The author's permission was granted by henschel SCHAUSPIEL Theaterverlag Berlin (DE) and Hofra Ltd. www.hofra.hu
