The cast of “Waiting for Godot” to announce

 

 

 Amir Reza Koohestani intends to prepare Irish writer Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” for some open-air performances in Tehran. The venue will be  open air of Book Garden.

 

 

 

Despite the male nature of the characters in “Waiting for Godot”, he plans to stage the play with a cast of five actresses. Lily Rashidi, Mahin Sadri, Elham Korda, Mona Ahmadi and Khazar Masoumi will star in the show.

After a long time, Khazar Masoumi returns to acting.

 

 

 

Amir Reza Koohestani was born in 1978 in Shiraz, Iran. He was 16 when he began to publish short stories in local newspapers. Attracted to cinema, he took courses in directing and cinematography and created two unfinished films. After a brief experience as performer, he devoted his time to write his first plays for the Mehr Theatre Group: And the Day Never Came (1999) and The Murmuring Tales (2000).

 

 

 

With his third play, Dance on Glasses (2001), Amir Reza Koohestani gained international notoriety and found the support of several European theatrical artistic directors and festivals. Then followed the plays Recent Experiences (from the original text by Canadian writers Nadia Ross and Jacob Wren, 2003); Amid the Clouds (2005); Dry Blood & Fresh Vegetables (2007); Quartet: A Journey North (2008); Where Were You on January 8th? (2009); Ivanov (2011); The Fourth Wall (from the original play England by Tim Crouch, 2012)presented one hundred times in an art gallery in Tehran.

 

The play was originally published in 1952 in French as “En attendant Godot”. It was a true innovation in drama and the Theatre of the Absurd’s first theatrical success.

 

 

 

“Waiting for Godot” consists of conversations between Vladimir and Estragon, who are waiting for the arrival of the mysterious Godot, who continually sends word that he will appear but who never does.