The lie became the theme of a dramatic work’: Majid Araghi on how he directs "Enemy of God"
Iran Theater-Majid Araghi is among the directors in the Iranian theater competition section of the 42nd Fadjr, which considers his theater as the playwright , Emaduddin Rajablou's concern about lies, which is one of the problems of our society today.
This play, which has already been staged twice in the NofelLoshato Theater and the Sayeh Hall of the City Theater of Tehran, was well received and appreciated by the audience in its special performance during Fadjr Festival.
"Emaduddin Rajablou, the author of the play Enemy of God, initially wrote this work in the form of two separate plays in 2022-2013 and then turned them into one play. He created this work based on one of his personal concerns; Lying, which is one of our troubles in our society", he said.” Rajablou directed Enemy of God in 2016 in Gorgan city. We had started our activity together in the theater from there, but in 2019 we decided to migrate to Tehran, and considering that theater production was always one of our main concerns, we decided to choose a play that we could finance and become a quality show and that's how we went to Enemy of God again.”
He went on to say: "The first episode of this show takes place in the principal's office of an elementary school, and two students have a fight over an essay paper, and both of them consider themselves the owners of it, they are interrogated in a way. The second episode of the show takes place in the command office of the military barracks where two training soldiers had a fight with each other. And one of them claims that the senior broke his shoulder.”