“The Silent House” in The Edinburgh International Festival

Iran Theatre- Mehdi Mashhour’s “The Silent  House” will attend in The Edinburgh International Festival which take place on August 2019.

The play sets in a refugee camp and addresses some immigrant problems.

“The Silent  House”  is a production of Tehran-based Saye Theatre Group . The show went on stage at the Regina International Fringe Theatre Festival as well.

Benjamin Esbati and Mina Zaman  are the main cast.

As an international theatre company, the show is designed to travel from country to country. For this reason, there is very little dialogue. Instead, the actors rely on body language and physicality to bring their story to life.

Esbati writes and directs short films in Iran, but said he’s dipped his toe into the acting pool over the past year.

Saye Theatre Group was founded in 2001 and has two more members who did not travel to Saskatchewan. Before the group came to Regina, they performed the show in Germany and England. They travel to France next.

Mashhour said they are enjoying the calmness of Regina, very different from Tehran, which has a population in the millions.

For three weeks in August, Scotland’s capital becomes an unparalleled celebration of the performing arts and an annual meeting point for people of all nations. Every year, the International Festival present a programme featuring finest performers and ensembles from the worlds of opera, music and theatre.