The play "Silence of Slaves" by Alireza Koushak Jalali was published

Alireza Koushk Jalali is born March 21, 1958 in Tehran, Iran. He is an Iranian theatre director and playwright and Translation. Currently he resides in Cologne, Germany, where he also made his first German production in 1986.

 

Alireza Koushk Jalali should be regarded an international theater artist rather than an Iranian one. He has been writing plays in German language.  He has performed more than 45 shows in Germany and has four published plays in German language. He has a group in Cologne called 'Ali Jalali Ensemble'.

His play 'Barefoot, Naked, a Heart in Fist' received award in Germany. It has had more than 650 performances in Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine, Burkina Faso, Russia, the US, Iran and Turkey. It received an honorary prize in Cologne in 2016.

Koushk jalali have staged 'M. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran', 'The God of Carnage', 'The Gronholm Method' and 'Postman: Pablo Neroda' in Iran in the past.

Koushk-Jalali has staged 'Waiting for Adolf' in Iranshahr Theater Complex. It was warmly welcomed.

The play 'Waiting for Adolf' – and adaptation of 'What's in a Name?' by Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte –is translated and directed by Koushk-Jalali.

 

This is part of the play:

Leila: Threaten her.

Amir: No.

Leila: Well, that is my historical duty and this is your historical duty. Put something on your head that you do not reveal.

Ganghis: I have a helmet.

Leila: He must understand that Genghis is not alone ... he has a family ... a people behind him ...

Amir: The people ... the people of Ganghis ...

Leila: Look, I hate Genghis ... I hate myself ...

Ganghis: I hate myself too.