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Polish festival honors Iran’s Mehdi Farajpur
TEHRAN, June 18 (MNA) -- Iranian director Mehdi Farajpur won the best director award for “Beckett” at the 24th Puppet and Actor Theater, an international festival which took place in Lomza in Poland from June 7 to 10.
The play is based on “Krapp’s Last Tape” by Samuel Beckett. It tells story of Krapp, a writer. Each year on his birthday, he takes out a tape he has recorded on a previous birthday to examine his former self and to record a new tape about the direction his life is taking.
“Since 2004, Krapp has been churning in my head searching to find a proper way to reveal itself,” Farajpur has said about the play on his website.
“But I have never allowed myself time to start working on it for all these years. The reason was ‘Beckett’ himself, since he is a very particular writer.
“It’s hard to free yourself as director from the atmosphere created by Beckett. He does not let you on the stage to do what you like.
“Sooner or later, you will find yourself on a path which was paved by Samuel Beckett. I wanted present a challenge to this notion.
“The path upon which I found it interesting to start the challenge was Text. This means challenging words, the very foundation of Beckett’s concept. The idea was to pass beyond words onto movement/dance.”
The play is based on “Krapp’s Last Tape” by Samuel Beckett. It tells story of Krapp, a writer. Each year on his birthday, he takes out a tape he has recorded on a previous birthday to examine his former self and to record a new tape about the direction his life is taking.
“Since 2004, Krapp has been churning in my head searching to find a proper way to reveal itself,” Farajpur has said about the play on his website.
“But I have never allowed myself time to start working on it for all these years. The reason was ‘Beckett’ himself, since he is a very particular writer.
“It’s hard to free yourself as director from the atmosphere created by Beckett. He does not let you on the stage to do what you like.
“Sooner or later, you will find yourself on a path which was paved by Samuel Beckett. I wanted present a challenge to this notion.
“The path upon which I found it interesting to start the challenge was Text. This means challenging words, the very foundation of Beckett’s concept. The idea was to pass beyond words onto movement/dance.”
