our narration is based on Naqqali

Iran Theater-“Toranj” directed by Afsaneh Zamani will be on stage at 25^th International Children and Youth Theater Festival.

Afsaneh Zamani , who has directed various plays such as "Girls of Carpet Gardens", "Three  little Pigs", "The Mountain Man's Tale" and ... for the young adults, has written the play with Nasrin Khanjari .

 

The story is   "The aristocratic mansion is crowded and busy for partying, all the people are busy with food and meals, but the little Toranj  is annoying, because she is  still small and not allowed to enter the party, then she went  to the  Khanoom Joon’s clothes. ..” 

The cast includes Behnaz BostanDoost, Maryam Ashoori, Mehrnoosh Shariati, Marzieh Naderi. With the special performance of Barsin  Solimani and Parnian Asgharzadeh. The production designer is Sina Yilaghzadeh.  The composer is Abdulah Atshani.

Afsaneh Zamani  wrote the play based on a folkloric  tale “Narenj & Toranj”, she said about it:” For two years, Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults offered me a job, and since I had been away from children theater for a while, I should be looking for the good play more carefully and obsessively. It's always been harder for me to do a  work for children  . This time I would like to have a story in the atmosphere of Persian tales.”

 

About the style of directing, She explained:” our narration is based on  Naqqali.  We use the narrator. But in many other Iranian ways of performance, objects have a special identity. For instance,  in Ta’zieh the audience imagination is used. But at the same time, the object is applied in the scene and embodies that scene.”

She said that she has seen the impact of his efforts to bring Iranian culture through the audience via her shows.