“Puppa” will go on stage

Iran Theater-Mehdi Shah piri’s “Puppa” will go on stage at The  17th Tehran-Mobarak International Puppet Festival. Puppa, loosely based on  Euripides’s Medea, will place the viewer in an archaeological position.

The story is about a childless king. One night a bee sounds in the king's ears and tells the secret to become father.

  After a few months, Queen gives birth to twin children:  Red hair girl and dead boy. The king is grieved because of  the dead son. Again, the bee sound will resonate in his ear , if only  the girl's throat is cut off, the boy will be alive. The king cut the girl's throat. A red flower grows from her blood. Some  Years later, one day a sailor comes to the beach and sees the flower.

The director, who is interested in One Thousand and One Nights and Demon and fairy’s atmosphere, In the rewrite and adaptation of "Madea", he changed the Greek mythological form and used the magic.

The director explains: The technique is a modern and the use of puppets in the traditional and classical style is not applicable. But in some parts that we have dolls, the Batomy technique has been used. The play has no dialogues.The performance  has   narration  and our approach is visualized.

Mehrnoush Balameh has designed and made puppet. Also did costume designer.

Tehran-Mobarak  International Puppet Festival will  take place  on August 23rd - 29th, 2018.