A successful play with a social awareness

Iran Theater-Abbas Abdolalizadeh- The Next Turn "is a social play directed by Morteza Shahkarm , It’s on stage at the Qashqai Hall,The City Theater Complex.

If we want to look at the story of the "next turn", then we should reach the beginning of the story. A father is forced to undergo  his twin surgery because of the social pressures and harassment surrounding people, but the surgery is not successful. The children are lost and the father decides to donate their members.

The "next turn" could have come out like a rock sculpture by scraping from the hard rock, but this show is more like making an artistic pottery that its creator, the writer and the director, adding piece by piece of soft sculpture and polishing it in the end has a mocking effect. The effect that will be stayed  with the audience at the end of play, grab the attention on the underlying layers of the "next turn".

The social aspect of the work is also very important. What comes out of the play is to condemn the discovery, misery and unwonted interference in the lives of the people, which illustrate well the collapse of a family by addressing this issue. The writer's critical look reveals direct and indirect harmful interference in the expression of the characters of the show.

The "next turn" has a surprise at the end . "The next turn is the story of two mothers. A mother has been living for many years with her child's bones, hoping to be alive again   and the mother who fears losing the child so she has accepted any difficulty, but does not accept the risk of losing her children in the act of separation.

In general Indirect mentions in the text, a consistent narrative, the performances, the production design of the "next turn," has transformed the dramatic effect into a successful play in the work of the Sokoot theater group.