Day of Armita” at Fadjr Theater Festival

The show is  about the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Dariush Rezainejad.

The play was written by Fatemeh Radmanesh, whose husband, Ali-Mohammad Radmanesh, is directing the street play during the festival.

                                      

“The play is about Armita, daughter of Martyr Dariush Rezainejad, centering on the issue of her father’s assassination, while it also talks about the benefits of nuclear energy, its impact on nuclear medicine and its role in helping patients,” Fatemeh Radmanesh said in a press release published on Saturday.

 

“How the scientist was martyred and its effect on his widow and daughter are also major parts of the play,” she noted.

 

Gunmen riding motorcycles shot Rezainejad in front of his house in Tehran in July 2011. Rezainejad, 35, was martyred and his wife was wounded during the terrorist attack.

 

“A play needs to be both attractive and influential. This play is mostly based on real events, while it also tries to narrate how nuclear medicine can help children with cancer. It tries to show the humane side of the martyr,” she noted.

 

She further noted that the audiences of street plays are composed of people from all walks of life including artists, students, workers, clerks, children and passersby, so the plays need to be both simple, dramatic and professional as well,” she added.