Mehrdad Rayani-Makhsous to Be Presenter
TV Channel Four to Host Eugenio Barba
Iran’s national television Channel Four will host Eugenio Barba, one of the internationally-known contemporary theatre directors and writers as well as founder of the famous Odin Teatret, in its “Chashme Shab Roshan” program.
“Chashme Shab Roshan” program will host Mr Barba, who is accompanying Odin Teatret ensemble to Tehran to perform “The Tree” and , two solo performances, give two Master Classes and two workshops during their weeklong stay, on Sunday, February 5.
Mehrdad Rayani-Makhsous, the director of the Dramatic Arts Center for international affairs, will ask questions about Mr Barba’s trip to Iran and Odin Teatret.
Denmark-based Italian-born Barba is one of the most significant artists of experimental theatre and theatre anthropology, irantheater.ir reported. reported.
He started his professional career in 1962 as an assistant to Jerzy Grotowski, who was the director of the Theatre of 13 Rows at that time.
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).
“Chashme Shab Roshan” program aired on Saturdays to Wednesdays every week at 23:00. Amir Qomeishi is producer and Mohammad Saleh Ala’ the presenter of the program.