Over 300 Registered to Attend

Sassan Pirouz, who has been in charge of attending submissions for taking part in the master classes and workshops, said that 210 out of over 300 individuals who were registered to participate in the classes, completed the required documents.

He said that members of Odin Teatret would decide on the final participants, adding that they would be informed if they were admitted.  

Mr Pirouz said that the City Theater would host the event and there would be no shortage of seats.

He added that Odin Teatret would also give three other workshops, which would be practical and only 16 individuals would attend and four would observe.

Eugenio Barba, one of the internationally-known contemporary theatre figures and founder of the famous Odin Teatret, will arrive in Tehran to perform The Tree and give performing arts workshops.

Eugenio Barba, who was born and grew up in Italy, is one of the most significant artists of experimental theatre and theatre anthropology.

Mr Barba founded Odin Teatret in October 1964 in Oslo, Norway and moved to Holstebro, Denmark in 1966. He has been working with Odin Teatret over the past five decades, turning into an internationally-acclaimed director of theatre thanks to development of his techniques, views and training of actors and dramaturgy.

Mr Barba has directed 77 productions with Odin Teatret and with the intercultural Theatrum Mundi Ensemble such as Ferai (1969), My Father's House (1972), Brecht's Ashes (1980), The Gospel according to Oxyrhincus (1985), Talabot (1988), Kaosmos (1993), Mythos (1998), Andersen's Dream (2004), Ur-Hamlet (2006), Don Giovanni all'Inferno (2006), The Marriage of Medea (2008) and The Chronic Life (2012) and The Tree (2016).

Mr Barba will accompany Odin Teatret ensemble to Tehran where they will present the most recent ensemble performance The Tree, two solo performances, give two Master Classes and two workshops during their weeklong stay.