Poster for Human is Human, platyign in Iran this month
Members of a Manchester based theatre company are setting off this week to Tehran where they will perform the first ever British production over three weeks at Iran's main theatre venue. The English language play - a world premier - is written by University of Manchester PhD research student Mehrdad Rayani Makhsous - an established writer, academic, documentary maker and director in Iran. The Kolectiv theatre company project is supervised by Dr Sasha Dundjerovic, a senior lecturer in drama at the University, with a cast of three Brits and one Iranian. The trip -one of very few cultural exchanges to take place in Iran over recent years - is funded by the Iranian Dramatic Arts Centre, the country's most important cultural institution. They will perform 'Human is human', at Tehran City Theatre, inspired by Brecht's 'A man's a man', concerning an animal who is locked up in a mental institution and eventually transformed into a woman. Sepidah Mazaripour ,who is also a PhD student at The University of Manchester, plays the animal kept in a prison cell who gradually develops a relationship with the prison guards and a doctor. The other members of the cast are Krystyna Musiol, Robin Sidwell and Wayne Jackson.
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