Ehsan Maleki on his Theater “We’re People too”
Iran Theater- Ehsan Maleki, the director of street show “We're People too” considered this work to be a theater about personal and social effects of poverty, the loss of livelihood.
Written by Amin Ebrahimi and directed by Ehsan Maleki, the stage theater “We’re People too” competes in Fadjr Street section. It’s contender in the Review Section.
"We Were People" is about a family and their niece's illness. The patient is a little girl with cancer. The members of this girl's family, who are very poor and needy, try to solve their problem and do everything to cover the cost of their niece's treatment. Their problem becomes so complicated and unsolvable that the mother of the family becomes a surrogate mother to cover the expenses and the cost of her child's medicine and treatment. Then something happens.
The director said: "Amin Ebrahimi's play deals with a social concern of our city, Kohdasht, and our province, Lorestan. Something that is a national issue, and There are livelihood difficulties and poverty; Poverty has undeniable effects on the personal and social life of all citizens. This is one of my concerns and Ebrahimi's concerns.”