Tahmasebi to stage Ives’ plays at Iranshahr Theater Complex

TEHRAN,June 10(MNA) – Stage actress and director Maedeh Tahmasebi will stage three comic plays by American contemporary playwright David Ives in the form of a single drama at the Iranshahr Theater Complex. She plans to stage Ives’ “Words, Words, Words”, “Variations on the Death of Trotsky” and “Sure Thing” in the form of a single play at the 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, dramaturge them for them for the performance. “We probably will name the performance ‘Words, Words, Words’ and will stage them concurrently,” Tahmasebi told the Mehr News Agency. Tahmasebi said that her big challenge is “to relate these three short different plays to each other.” Farhad Ayeesh, Ramin Nasser-Nasir, Leili Rashidi, Babak Hamidian and Pantea Panahiha 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 István Örkény’s “The Toth Family” which was staged at the Niavaran Cultural Center.