است (Is)
Parnia Shams
Tehran
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Dates
19:00
19:00 with Introduction
19:00
with YW After-show Talk
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Parnia Shams
Tehran
Categories
A classroom for girls: desks, chairs, a blackboard. The teachers cannot be seen or heard. But their presence and authority are evident from the behavior of their students. Mahoor is 16 years old and has moved to Tehran in the middle of the school year. At her new school, she becomes close friends with the best student in the class. However, the relationship developing between the two of them soon leads to conflict. In ‘ست’ (Is), Parnia Shams works with young performers who recently attended school themselves. The girls sit in lessons, laugh, whisper, secretly exchange notes, and invent stories. Subtle gestures reveal their empathy and protest. Parnia Shams demonstrates the silencing effect of a power that influences our most intimate decisions – and we experience school as a contested space of discipline and solidarity.
Introduction on 6.7. at 18.30.
Language: German
After-show talk on 7.7. after the performance with Young Worlds Club
On July 8 at 11:00 AM, artists Parnia Shams and Nastaran Razawi Khorasani will meet in conversation at Mousonturm.
Photo: ©Navid Fayaz
About the Artist(s)
Parnia Shams, born in Nahavand in 1996, studied Directing at Soore University in Tehran. She has acted in ‘Speak Medea‘ (2015), ‘At the Beginning of a Symphony‘ (2016), and ‘Ghorb an Gah‘ (2017). In 2018 she directed her first play, ‘Tatavor‘, for which she was awarded prizes for Best Female Performance, Best Director and Best Play at the Soore Academy of Arts Student Theater Festival and the Iran International University Theatre Festival in Tehran.