A new adaptation of Pinocchio in Tehran
Iran Theater- The musical show Male cat and cunning fox by oshan Mahmoudi will be performed in Tehran’s City Theater Complex.
A new adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio is the latest musical show which comes on stage from May 27 at City Theater Complex.
The Adventures of Pinocchio is a children's fantasy novel by Italian author Carlo Collodi. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto.
According to extensive research by the Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi and UNESCO sources in the late 1990s, the book has been translated into as many as 260 languages worldwide.
After the death of poor Geppetto, Pinocchio receives a will as an inheritance, in which the secret of the golden tree is written in code. With the help of his duck, Pinocchio tries to discover and reach that valuable heritage, which is accompanied by a Male cat and cunning fox.
The Fox and the Cat are Greedy anthropomorphic animals pretending to be lame and blind respectively, the pair lead Pinocchio astray, rob him and eventually try to hang him in the book.
The cast includes Bita Aziz, Ali Tarimi, Mohammad Shahriar, Ayat Bigham, Mitra Masa’eli, Majid Iraqi, Atoosa Jalili, Mahyar Varzagan, Hessam Zarnoushe, Leili Nabi- Elahi, Hiwa Haghani, Alireza Dehghani, Milad Khairkhah, Maryam Basiri Far, Reyhane Ghafourian, Nilufar Fatahi and Mina Shadmani
The crew: Shahab Mahmoudi and Seyed Emad Ameri (producers), Amir Sepehr Taghilou (project manager), Ali Kozegar (light designer), Shahab Mahmoudi (set and costume designer), Faeze Soltani (light and make-up designer), Mohammad Asghari Asl and Mehdi Zamani ( sound designers and music production), Shayan Safavi and Mohammad Hossein Ghafari (sound technicians), Shervin Aghili (video), Mitra Masa’eli and Oshan Mahmoudi (motion designers), Ayeh Fili (poster and brochure designer), Sohrab Khanzadeh (photographer and production of advertising material)
The show " Male cat and cunning fox " written and directed by Oshan Mahmoudi is staged every day at 19:30 in the main hall of City Theater Complex.