Afghan immigrants’ pain on stage at Tehran theater
A play featuring the pain and suffering endured by Afghan immigrants in exile was staged at the Sanobar Hall of the Shahrzad Theater Complex in Tehran on Wednesday.
A play featuring the pain and suffering endured by Afghan immigrants in exile was staged at the Sanobar Hall of the Shahrzad Theater Complex in Tehran on Wednesday.
A cast of Afghan and Iranian actors is performing the play “Coffin”, which is being helmed by Afghan director Senator Hosseini who has been raised in Iran.
The play is being performed in three episodes, Hosseini told the Persian service of MNA on Thursday.
“The first episode is about an Afghan family that lives in Iran. A son of the family tries to convince the family to immigrate to Europe, however, the father disagrees with him, he says, ‘if we have any plan to leave Iran, I prefer to return our homeland,’” he said.
The second episode of the play follows an Iranian boy and an Afghan girl who are secretly married. They plan to leave Iran before their families are informed about their marriage.