ˈCount to Oneˈ To Go On Stage At German Festival

Tehran, May 11, IRNA - Yas-e Tamam, an Iranian theater group led by writer/ director Zahra Sabri, will perform “Count to One” at the International Puppet Theater Festival (FIDENA), which will be held in Bochum, Germany. The play will go on stage on May 18 during the festival, which will be held from May 16 to 24, the English-language daily ˈTehran Timesˈ said on Sunday. Inspired by one of Khayyam’s poems, the play is about three soldiers who decide to cease fighting in an unknown land. To express themselves, they begin making sculptures with mud. The festival’s website described “Count to one” as “a quiet play in an Oriental style” and “a daring anti-war statement”. Fatemeh Abbasi, Reza Abbaspur, Reza Bahrami, Hossein Divandari and Mehdi Shahpiri will be the puppeteers. The festival will host 24 artists and groups from Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Russia, Iran, Belarus and Germany that have been invited to appear at FIDENA 2014./end