Friedrich Dürrenmatt ‘s Die Panne comes to Iran

Die Panne is a radio drama by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and it’s about a man who walks into a village while looking for a place to fix his car tire problem and a mysterious and unimaginable story leads his night to the morning.

                                                

 

Friedrich  Dürrenmatt was a Swiss writer , playwright and painter .He  created his own type of tragicomedy , a mixed form of tragedy and comedy, which he believes is “the only possible dramatic form today for expressing the tragic”. As Dürrenmatt says in his 1955 text Theatrical Problems , tragedy presupposes “guilt, distress, moderation, overview, responsibility” in order to achieve its goal, the purification of the individual. In the complexity of the modern world, according to Dürrenmatt, guilt is blurred and pushed aside, only the grotesque comes into play in the modern age .

 

 

The cast: Shahram Abdoli, Hamid Mahindoost, Ramin Parchami, Pouria Abdi, Ali Atai- Hor and Sara Madah

 

 

The Crew: Mohammad Maleki (producer), Ali Tehranchi (set designer and costume designer, graphic designer), Giso Mohammadzadeh (poster designer and brochure designer), Hanieh Houshmand (make-up), Sahar Partovikian (first assistant director and planner), Amir Ali Keshvardoost (assistant Second director and stage manager), Sara Madah (live music), Ehsan Naji (music selection), Sahar Partovikian (photographer) and Negar Maleki (financial affairs).

 

 

The show will be on stage at Shahrazad Theater Complex from 22 December to 25 January at 20:30 and those interested can buy tickets for this show on Tiwall website.