Introduced by Farindokht Zahedi, Associate Professor, College of Fine
Arts / Theater / Faculty of Performing Arts and Music, University of
Tehran. Editors Aubrey Mellor and Cheryl Robson. A wide-ranging
collection of plays from new and established voices from today's Iran
and the global Iranian diaspora. Plays cover life in contemporary Iran,
the hopes of women finding new ways to assert their individuality in a
time of great of upheaval, the lives of those trapped in a migrant camp
and the need to challenge stereotypical views. The plays shine a light
on a rapidly changing Iran, one that is vastly different from the
misconceptions outsiders have of it. Includes: A Moment of Silence by
Mohammad Yaghoubi - (Iran) Home by Naghmeh Samini - (Iran) Shame by
Sholeh Wolpe -(Iran-USA) Manus by Leila Hekmatnia (Iran), Keyvan
Sarreshteh (Iran), Nazanin Sahamizadeh (Australia) Isfahan Blues Torange
Yeghiazarian - (Iran-USA) Editors: Aubrey Mellor Aubrey is a leading
Australian Theatre Director. Currently Senior Fellow at LASALLE, in
Singapore, he was the first Australian to study Asian writing. Formerly
Director of the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), he
is well-known as an acting teacher to a generation of acclaimed
Australian actors. He has directed for all major companies, commissioned
and premiered plays by Australia's leading playwrights and is a leading
proponent of new Australian writing. Aubrey founded several writing
awards for playwrights and is an advisor to arts bodies including the
Performing Arts Board of The Australia Council and The Australian
National Playwright's Conference. Awards include the OAM in 1992, the
Australian Writer's Guild's Dorothy Crawford Award for services to
Playwriting and the International Theatre Institute's Uchimura Prize for
best production, Tokyo International Festival. Cheryl Robson Cheryl has
edited several collections of international drama. After studying drama
at Bristol University, she worked for the BBC and as a film lecturer.
She founded the Virginia Prize for Fiction in 2009 in the UK. She is an
award-winning playwright who has received Arts Council UK commission and
option awards and had several plays produced. She ran a theatre company
for several years in London, developing and producing international
plays by women. She has won numerous awards for her filmmaking and was
recently named a finalist in the ITV National Diversity awards -
Lifetime Achievement. .
