After 5 days Break
Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced restages in Tehran
Iran Theater- The play "Disgraced" directed by Farhad Shantiaei will return to the stage after a 5-day break.
The show was shut down due to the Ghader Days. Farhad Shantiaei, Shirin Salimi, Amir Ali Shirabadi, Behzad Karimi, Mahsa Shojaei are the cast of the show.
Disgraced is a 2012 play by novelist and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar. It premiered in Chicago and has had Off-Broadway and Off West End engagements. The play, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theater October 23, 2014.
“Disgraced” written by Ayad Akhtar and co-translated by Kamal Abdi and Shirin Salimi and directed by Farhad Shantiaei and produced by Saeed Roustaei, goes on stage every night at 21:45 in the Samandarian Hall of Iranshahr Theater Complex.
Saeed Roustai is a will-known screenwriter and director.
The story is about Amir Kapoor who has turned his back on his upbringing in pursuit of the American Dream—he's married to a beautiful woman, lives in a luxurious Manhattan apartment and is eyeing a lucrative promotion at his powerful law firm. But when Amir hosts a dinner party for his African American co-worker and her husband, the initially pleasant evening erupts into a volatile argument over race, religion and class in the modern world.