Maryam Mansouri on “Snow Makes the Earth Warm”:
A Rehearsal of Aesthetic & Violence
The ninth session of reading top plays of the 35th Fadjr International Theater Festival took place at Mashahir Hall of the City Theater.
Maryam Mansouri read her play “Snow Makes the Earth Warm” on the ninth session of reading top plays of the 35th Fadjr International Theater Festival in Mashahir Hall of the City Theater, irantheater.ir reported.
Maryam Mansouri read her play, which is full of violent scenes, for the audience. She describes her play, “Snow Makes the Earth Warm” is a play with six characters and inheriting the mania of killing in a family. The mania recurs in the family for several generation.”
She added that she was interested in crime novels such as those written by Agatha Christie, Friedrich Dürrenmatt and others whose stories she read in newspapers.
She explained that she was interested in giving a poetic aspect to violence and killing and serial killers such as one Iranian man who had committed most of his murderers in Baghdad by killing children and Ted Bundy (1946-1989), a charismatic American serial killer who confessed to 30 homicides, helped her in creating the characters.
Rejecting the educational impact of theater, Ms Mansouri said that the aesthetic aspect of play had top priority for her.
“I tried to pit emotions of audience against their reasons in this play,” she explained. “I loved to write about how the judgement of the society can influence our personal judgement,” she added.
“I wanted to rehearse aesthetic coupled with violence in my play,” Ms Mansouri stressed.