“Saturday Discourse” To be Held

 

Iran Theater- "Saturdays Discourse", A special program, with the management of Mohammad Reza Khaki and the collaboration of the Performing Arts  Center are held every Saturday in the Qashqai Hall of the City Theater complex.

In these sessions, new plays by a group of theater artists are read, followed by conversation with the translator and a specialist guest about the play.

The first program of "Saturdays Discourse" will be about Collaborators by John Hodge which translated by Nariman Afshari. He will direct the performances, also.

John Hodge (born 1964) is a British screenwriter and dramatist, who adapted Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title. His first play Collaborators won the 2012 Olivier Award for Best New Play. Collaborators is  about the "surreal fantasy" of a relationship between two historical figures, Mikhail Bulgakov, the prominent Russian writer, and Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the Soviet Union. The play takes place from 1938-1940, when Stalin was implementing the Great Purge in which several million people were exiled, imprisoned, or executed. The play is Hodge's first, although he has had a long career as a screenwriter.

The play received its première at the Royal National Theatre, London, on 25 October 2011; Nicholas Hytner directed, with Alex Jennings as Bulgakov and Simon Russell Beale as Stalin.[1] The production subsequently won the 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for the best new play produced in Britain. The play has been published in the United Kingdom and in the U.S.