Tajbakhsh Fanaeiyan's 'Hamlet and Don Quixote'

Mahdi Shafiee, director general of Dramatic Arts Center, and Hojatol Eslam Behdarvand, a member of the Culture and Islamic Guidance's Supervision and Overseeing Council, opened the performance, Iran Theater reported.

The 90-minute performance will have performance until March 16.  

Tajbakhsh Fanaeiyan and a number of noted theater actors are working together in the show.

Siamak Safari, Hossein Moheb-Ahari, Kazem Balouchi, Jamshid Jahanzadeh, Behnam Tashakkor, Amir Karbalaeizadeh, Kourosh Soleimani, Shiva Khosrowmehr, Behnaz Nazi, Vahid Nafar, Bahram Behbahani, Amir Hossein Sardadian, Majid Akbari, Vahid Reza Khanlou, Hojjat Hosseini, Golnaz Mozaffaru, Saman Hajimohammadi, Amir Hossein Dianati, Bita Nejati, Aida Kavini, Mahsa Latif, Boshra Khademlou, Ghazal Rahavard, Kofrshad Faal, Ahmad Baharvand, Behdad Khaksari, Roham Golrokhian, Amir Sajjad Salmani and Mahbod Daniazar star in 'Hamlet and Don Quixote'.

Saeed Zehni and Khosrow Khorshidi are the composer and Fanaeiyan the set designer of 'Hamlet and Don Quixote'. Hojjat Seyed Alikhani is the producer of the play.

Zorayr Khalapyan, Armenian writer, novelist, dramaturgist, has written 'Hamlet and Don Quixote' and is translated in Farsi by Andranik Khachoumian.

Tajbakhsh Fanaeiyan has adapted the play for staging it in Tehran. The synopsis of the play reads, "Hamlet is getting crazy of fear and sadness. He has found another crazy price who is accompanied with his mad servant. One of them seeking victims to support him. Another one is expecting his lord to conquer an island or a country and hand over it to him. Nothing is serious.     

Other members of the group are assistant director and planner Hossein Fanaeiyan, set designer Manouchehr Shoja', costume designer Monireh Maleki, composer Saeed Zehni, lyrics Sepideh Zehni, choreographer Mansoureh Alimadadi, makeup designer Maria Hajiha, poster, brochure and advertisement designer Mahdi Davei, photographer Siamak Zomorrodi Motlagh, media advisor Maryam Naraghi, online advertisement Amir Ghalichi, production assistant Mojgan Ghorbani, set director Hamid Reza Safavi Borna, production director Hadi Baadpa.