Amir Reza Koohestani to Stage "Hearing" & "Amid the Clouds"

Mehr Theatre Group intends to perform "Hearing" and "Among Clouds" in July and August in Independent Theater of Tehran, irantheater.ir reported.

"Amid the Clouds" was performed more than 12 years ago in Qashqaei Hall of Tehran Theater Complex in which Hassan Majouni and Baran Kowsari acted. The play had been performed in over 20 countries.

"Hearing" was staged in 2015 in Charsou Hall of the City Theater Complex in which Elham Korda, Mahin Sadri, Mona Ahmadi and Aynaz Azarhoush starred. It took part in several festivals.

www.mehrtheatregroup.com says about the synopsis of "Amid the Clouds";

There exist voices that can pierce the still night.
They seem visceral and primitive; resonating from the dawn of time. These voices are laden with the memories of people forced off the land on which they live; forced to continue in a place unknown to them, in a language strange to them.
Theses are the voices that speak in Amid the Clouds. In this piece, the young author and director Amir Reza Koohestani blends the rythms of Persian narrative tradition and the stark reality of a refugee camp. He does so in an attempt to convey the contemporary situation in his native, unadorned and concentrated; giving space for that which is central: the birth of narrative.
On stage stands a large water-filled table and it is here Imour and Zina meet, both on their way to the Promised Land. Zina is pregnant, hoping to give birth and seek asylum on the opposite side of the English Channel. Imour is consumed by his attempts to silence the atrocious memories that haunt him. Their flight forces them both to confront who they really are.

www.mehrtheatregroup.com says about the synopsis of "Hearing";

"The girls’ dormitory was always like an unattainable castle.

The doors and windows had thousand kinds of fences, locks, barriers, with thick glasses and guards and the arrests at the entrance. After the entrance door, a female world begun in which the entree of any man was prohibited. Mahin, my girlfriend and actress of my latest plays – and probably the actress playing the role for the warden – who has lived in one the same University dormitories for a year, says: “If one technician was supposed to come and fix the air conditioner, before he came up, they would announce it in the microphone that way: ‘Dear girls, please observe your hijab, a man wants to come upstairs’.”

Now, presume that in a situation like this, one day, a girl reported that she had heard a man in one of the rooms. This would be the starting point of the performance."