Zahra Sabri Dedicates Her Performance to Donya Fanizadeh
“Count to One” in Monaco Festival
“Count to One”, a piece by “Yaas Tamam” Group, is written and directed by Zahra Sabri. The show will perform on August 13 at Fort Antoine Festival. The piece had performances in Sweden, Germany, Russia, Itlay, Portugal and France.
Zahra Sabri told irantheater.ir that the festival would promote contemporary and news creativity. The 46th Fort Antoine Theater Festival hosts six companies and a piece from different countries will have performance for one week.
“The festival hosts pieces, which are hungry to know and experience truth,” she said.
On the international enthusiasm for the play, Ms Sabri said that the reason should be asked from the audience but it was so deep that could connect to them without having a dialogue.
Ms Sabri, the renowned director of puppet theaters who has had numerous tour in different countries, said that she would dedicate the upcoming performance to Donya Fanizadeh, the respected puppet performers.
Explaining that “Count to One” was an anti-war piece, Sabri said that the play was inspired by the poems of the internationally known Iranian poet Omar Kayyam.
“Soldiers of this piece are using mud to show that we were born one day and would die another and cannot take anything with ourselves,” she said and added that it was a play without dialogue and would tell the story of three soldiers ordered to bombard a city.
The soldiers refuse to take the order and start playing with muds after a rain, making things that would be destroyed later, she said.
On inspiration by Khayyam poetry, Ms Sabri said that the reading of his poems could be used in today’s life as he would talk about living in now and loving at the moment. “His poetry was timeless.”
The material of the play was soil and water and had no special stage deign except for some pottery wheels, she said but it would try to show a hate of war and a hope for life.
On performing again in Iran, Ms Sabri said that the show was welcomed by the audience and had demand for being performed again but the group did not intend to do that unless a request from a good theater would be made.
“Count to one” by “Yaas Tamam” Theater Group will be performed by Mohsen Shahpari, Hossein Divandari and Reza Bahrami. Behrang Abbaspour is the music player and composer.
Ms Sabri plans to stage “King Lear” soon. She has been working on its play for a while. She said that the play would probably be a live puppetry.
Ms Sabri has so far directed “Land & Wheel”, “Count to One”, “The House of Bernarda Alba” and “Eight Moments”. These pieces were performed in different countries and taken part in various festivals.