IIDCYA to screen naqqali performances on Instagram
Iran Theater- Iran’s Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) plans to publish several naqqali performances on its Instagram in the near future.
Naqqali is a dramatic style of storytelling dedicated to stories from Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh and other epic Persian stories, and someone who performs naqqali is called a morshed or naqqal.
The institute has invited the naqqals Mohammadreza Majuni, Amir-Hossein Ensafi and Fahimeh Barutchi to narrate stories from the classical Persian literature.
“Bijan and Manijeh” from Shahnameh, “The Merchant and the Parrot” from Rumi’s Masnavi-ye Manavi, as well as the story of Timur, the Turkic ruler of Central Asia who lived from 1336 until 1405, and his battle with Iran, are among the stories to be narrated.