Maryam Saadat plays Trotsky’s wife in “Word, Silence, Word”

TEHRAN,Aug.21(MNA) -- Iranian actress Maryam Saadat will play the role of the wife of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in the play “Word, Silence, Word”. The play is based on American playwright David Ives’ three plays “Words, Words, Words”, “Variations on the Death of Trotsky” and “Sure Thing”. “I will play the role of Trotsky’s wife, whose character has rarely been discussed in historical sources,” she said in a press release. “I have tried to adapt myself to the environment where the story occurs in order to make it credible,” she added. The play will be directed by the stage actress and director Maedeh Tahmasebi at the Samandarian Hall of the Iranshahr Theater Complex from August 17. The plays were translated by Tahmasebi into Persian and her stage husband Farhad Ayeesh, who is a renowned screen and stage artist, dramaturged them for them for the performance. Farhad Ayeesh, Maryam Saadat, Ramin Nasser-Nasir, Fereshteh Sadr-e Orafaei, Saeid Changizian, Amir Hossein Rostami and Shabnam Farshadju will star in the play. The play “Words, Words, Words” is a short comedic play about Kafka, Milton and Swift, three intelligent chimpanzees that have been put in a cage together for an experiment under the observing eye of a never seen scientist. The unseen scientist is testing the hypothesis that three apes hitting keys at random on typewriters for an infinite amount of time will almost surely produce Hamlet. “Sure Thing” is another short comic play featuring a chance meeting of two characters, whose conversation is continually reset by the use of a ringing bell, starting over when one of them responds negatively to the other. The other play “Variations on the Death of Trotsky” fictionalizes the death of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky through a number of distinct variations. Tahmasebi has previously directed Istvan Orkény’s “The Toth Family” which was staged at the Niavaran Cultural Center.