Macbeth in Tehran

The year after we brought Aurash to the Fadjr Theatre Festival, we were invited back to perform Macbeth. The piece was done in the same style as our 1995 production, but with Ron Kennel, Peter and Soheil the only returning cast members.

This must be a crazy wonderful festival – that year, 80 companies performed throughout the city over a week. While Europe and Asia were well represented, Modern Times was the only North American company performing that year (the very cool Sean MacMahon and Kevin Rees took their emergency exit show where you are now to the festival in 2005).

Both Macbeth and Aurash had enthusiastic full houses while in Tehran. On the final night of Macbeth, 600 people somehow fit into the 300 seat capacity theatre with (legend has it) an additional 200 people turned away (what fire regulations?). Peter later talked about that final performance with NOW...

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Stavroula Logothettis, who played Lady Macbeth, wrote an article for Macleans about the company’s time in Iran (editorial subtitle Canadian actress Stavroula Logothettis visits another part of George W. Bush’s ‘axis of evil’). Takes you back, doesn’t it?

It’s an interesting view of the region from the perspective of an outsider, published just two weeks before the US arrived in Iraq. You can read the complete article here.
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Creative Team
Direction: Soheil Parsa
With : James Acton, Mark Ellis, Peter Farbridge, Ashleigh Hendry, Ron Kennell, Stavroula Logothettis, Dax Lough, Soheil Parsa and Yashoda Ranganathan
Lighting: Stephan Droege
Original Music : Ian Lefeuvre
Costumes: Andjelija Djuric
Producer: Laurel Smith
Stage Management: Andrew Dollar

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