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Iranian Theater page 254

In the Theatrical Worlds textbook there is a section that talks about theater in the Middle East. When I came across the Iranian portion I was to be honest surprised that it was there. I had never heard of there being any theater from there. The only work that was mentioned being performed was a ritual play that told the story of the martyr grandson of the prophet Muhammad. This got me curious as to what other plays might be offered if any at all. I did find a website that appears to be an Iranian theater group, but it is all in what appears to be Arabic.

http://theater.ir/

Here is the City Theater in the capitol city of Tehran

I also found out that there is an annual theater festival that is held in Iran, the Fajr Theater festival, as well and have found a video about it

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Overall I think it was very interesting diving deeper than what was in our textbook about Iranian theater and the culture that surrounds it and that theater itself is in fact quite popular there.