Woody Allen’s comedy play “Riverside Drive” to be on stage

Morteza Barzegarzadegan is the director of the play translated into Persian by Mohammadreza Avzar.

Mohammadreza Hashemi, Babak Qaderi and Sanaz Roshani are members of the cast.

In “Riverside Drive,” the better play on the twin bill, the wild, infantile, murderous impulses of the unconscious are the subject of forlorn meditation.

Waiting on a park bench by the Hudson River, a self-absorbed screenwriter, Jim Swain, fidgets in that special Woody Allen ozone of fretful desire. 

He is expecting his mistress, with whom he is planning to break up. A bearded homeless man, the aptly named Fred Savage intrudes on Swain’s solitude, unsettling him first by identifying him as a writer, then by claiming uncredited authorship of Swain’s latest movie, the idea for which, he maintains, Swain stole from a conversation of Savage’s, overheard in Central Park.

The play is an episode of “Three One-Act Plays: Riverside Drive, Old Saybrook and Central Park West”.

Three delightful one-act plays set in and around New York, in which sophisticated characters confound one another in ways only Woody Allen could imagine.