Dash Akol According to Marjan (Part 1)

The Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies is proud to present Professor Bahram Beyzaie’s new play Dash Akol According to Marjan (Part 1).

Performance dates:

Saturday, September 21: 7:00-10:00 PM
Sunday, September 22: 7:00-10:00 PM
Friday, September 27: 7:00-10:00 PM
Saturday, September 28: 7:00-10:00 PM
Sunday, September 29: 7:00-10:00 PM

Please note: Performances will take place at Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley, CA, from 7–10 pm. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Play is in Persian/Farsi.

Important information about parking, public transportation, and arrival can be found on the Berkeley Repertory Theatre website.

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About the Play: 

“Dash Akol enters a house where the man of the house, on his deathbed, makes him its protector! Is the house under his protection—or is he under the protection of this house?

‘Dash Akol, According to Marjan’ is a journey into the short story by Sadegh Hedayat titled ‘Dash Akol’ (first published in 1311/1932), a search for retrieving what he left unsaid! This time, his story is seen from the prism of the girl of the house—Marjan—and from what she has seen or heard, from near or afar—what is simultaneously and mirror-like also the story of Marjan herself, and the story of this house where she was born, and the story of the central figure of this story and this house, her mother, Mahbanoo—whom Dash Akol belatedly realizes has the same main enemy as all three of them!”

Cast:

Mojdeh Shamsaie
Dina Zarif
Amer Mosafer
Ali Zandiyeh
Mehdi Manshadi
Behzad Golemohammadi
Leila Soltani
Homa Harati
Shayan Khoshmagham
Mohamad Hosein Shokoohi
Adman Karami
Payam Moghaddam
Pooya Doost
Negar Asef
Mahgol Sarrafzadeh
Khatereh Nowrouzi
Golnoosh Golpayegani
Hossein Shoaiee
Khalil Anvar
Ghazal Hemmat
Negar Soltani
Nasim Gorgani
Sara Safdari
Leila Ghazavi
and
Mohammad Talani

 :بازیگران

مژده شمسایی
دینا ظریف
عامر مسافر
علی زندیّه
مهدی منشادی
بهزاد گل‌محمدی
لیلا سلطانی
هما هراتی
شایان خوش‌مقام
محمدحسین شکوهی
ادمان کرمی
پیام مقدّم
پویا دوست
نگار آصف
ماهگل صراف‌زاده
خاطره نوروزی
گلنوش گلپایگانی
حسین شعاعی
خلیل انوار
غزل همت
نگار سلطانی
نسیم گرگانی
سارا صفدری
لیلا قاضوی
محمد تالانی
 

Part of the Stanford Festival of Iranian Arts

Graphic design by Matin Nasiriha.