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Wed, 09/21/2011 - 09:26
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Iranian ritual play wins top prize at Belarusian festival
TEHRAN, Sept. 21 (MNA) -- Mohammad Hatami’s “Zar”, a play based on King Lear accompanied by Iran’s Zar rite, won the Best Play Award at the White Tower International Theater Festival in Belarus.
The play went on stage during the festival that was held from September 9 to 16 in Brest, Belarus.
Mohammad Hatami announced his happiness over winning the award, saying that it made the Iranian audience at the festival happy.
The Zar rite, commonplace in southern Iran, is a legacy from slavery as it was performed by African slaves who were brought to southern Iran by the Portuguese. They performed it on weekends in order to gain energy to enable them to bear the burden of bondage for the rest of the week.
Over time, ordinary people also joined in their musical rite comprising ecstatic dance with dammam (tom-tom) playing. Today, Zar is mostly performed by workers in a group named ahl-e hava, which is conducted by a leader called a babazari.
The play went on stage during the festival that was held from September 9 to 16 in Brest, Belarus.
Mohammad Hatami announced his happiness over winning the award, saying that it made the Iranian audience at the festival happy.
The Zar rite, commonplace in southern Iran, is a legacy from slavery as it was performed by African slaves who were brought to southern Iran by the Portuguese. They performed it on weekends in order to gain energy to enable them to bear the burden of bondage for the rest of the week.
Over time, ordinary people also joined in their musical rite comprising ecstatic dance with dammam (tom-tom) playing. Today, Zar is mostly performed by workers in a group named ahl-e hava, which is conducted by a leader called a babazari.
