City Theater Complex to Home the puppet show "Mom"

The puppet show "Mom", an award-winning show from the 19th Tehran-Mubarak International Puppet Show Festival, was opened with the presence of Kazem Nazari (Director General of Dramatic Arts Center), Hadi Hejazifar (artistic director of the 19th Tehran Puppet Festival) and Seyed Mohammad Javad Taheri (Head of the City Theater Complex).

The show "Mom" written and directed by Elham Salj -Mahmoudi is one of the winners of the adult section of the Tehran Puppet Festival, which won the awards for best play, best director, best music, best puppet making and best puppeteer.

Marjan Namvarazad, Rouya Naseri, Ali Barouti, Saba Gadimi and Masoumeh Arvaz are the puppeteers of this show.

                                                                            

The writer and director of the show stated that family relationships are one of the issues and concerns of the human race today: "Choosing the scope of responsibility towards family members is a problem that can be risky. The dramatic art is a suitable medium that can lead people to think better about this."

This artist, who studied puppetry, pointed out that the puppet show "Mom" has a non-linear narrative: "This show is a combined puppet show using small and big puppet in an abstract way but with a simple language and It narrates the story clearly."

 

Emphasizing that the "Mom" is for adults, she added: ""Recently, puppet shows are performed less often and I tried to reconcile the adult audience with puppet shows by choosing a simple form for storytelling and by using light and trying to tell excerpts."