‘I Am a Woman. Do You Hear Me?’ Hosts Vice President for Women & Family Affairs

Ebtekar said before the play that he was happy that Mowlavi Hall is alive once again with theater performances, adding that she and her father used to watch many plays at the hall in the past including Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s ‘The Visit of the Old Lady’, which had been directed by late Iranian director Hamid Samandarian.

Following the play, Ebtekar said that she was impressed by the performance. “Thank God that theater has been revived again. This shows that we have passed over the old difficult days and are strongly present on stage today.”

She praised ‘I Am a Woman. Do You Hear Me?’ as an acclaimed and beautiful play, which is written and directed by an Iranian artist and pictures the beauties of being a woman, the obstacles women face in their lives while their voices are not heard. “It is an emotional and artistic piece,” the official stressed.  

Ebtekar said that what that made the piece more interesting was picturing the feminine emotions, which could be source of hope, movement and progress.

She argued that the piece proved that how much the Iranian women have improved and the thing that they are active in theater and can convey their messages proves that they are being seen and their voices are heard.

The official stressed that such performances remind that these voices must be heard because there were a time women’s voices were completely ignored, adding that still voices of some women, who are wrestling with many problems, are not heard although the condition is improving.

‘I Am a Woman. Do You Hear Me?’  is performed by Proxis Group. It is written and directed by Kamelia Ghazali. Toumaj Danesh-Behzadi is the producer. It opened at Mowlavi Hall on Monday, December 4. It is performed every day except for Saturdays at 19:00.