A 10 minute video exploring the wide-ranging collection of plays from new and established voices from Iran and the Iranian diaspora published by Aurora Metro Books. Topics range from a jazz tour of Iran in 1963, to the desperate hopes of women in a time of war, to the struggle to create a new life abroad where beliefs and attitudes are tested, and in verbatim testimony, we explore the lives of those trapped in a migrant camp on a small island in the Pacific.

The plays reveal the hearts and minds of Iranian people and offer fascinating, new and original plays to perform.
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Includes:

'Home' by Naghmeh Samini – (Iran) translated by Hossein Nazari and Ghazal Ghaziani
'A Moment of Silence' by Mohammad Yaghoubi – (Iran) translated by Torange Yeghiazarian
'Dogs and my Mother’s Bones' by Mojgan Khaleghi (Iran)
'Isfahan Blues' Torange Yeghiazarian – (Iran-USA)
'Shame' by Sholeh Wolpe -(Iran-USA)
'Manus' by Nazanin Sahamizadeh (Iran), Leila Hekmatnia (Iran) & Keyvan Sarreshteh (Iran), translated by Siavash Maghsoudi. Based on Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani’s testimonies.


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.

REVIEWS

“I was drawn to the characters. A Moment of Silence made me think about life, art, and freedom of expression.” – Mooney on Theatre

“Isfahan Blues is presented as a memory play…[and] this is a play that knows how to have fun with itself.” – Bay Area Reportero

“Manus, however, for all its pain, hums with vital life – not least the power, good and bad, of storytelling.” – The Guardian

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