Interview · Radio Farda · Radio Azadi archive
A play’s passage into London
Rabihavi discusses Stoning’s writing, translation and earlier performances while its London run is underway.
- Speaker
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- Radio Farda · Radio Azadi archive
- Source date
- 22 August 2002
- Published language
- Persian
- Interviewer
- Shahran Tabari
- This page
- English conversation guide
Short broadcaster report of an interview, rather than a full question-and-answer transcript.
English editorial reading guide to the publisher’s Persian summary of a radio interview, not a verbatim broadcast transcript.
Writing before the production
The report summarises Rabihavi’s recollection that he wrote Stoning during his final years in Iran. He describes its translation by an unnamed English writer and Pinter’s part in introducing it to festivals. The summary does not itself supply a named translation credit for the London run. Source 1
Several stages, one work
Rabihavi recalls earlier Amsterdam and San Francisco performances and discusses the London run of 21–25 August. The separate production ledger supplies each event’s company, director and programme credits; the interview adds the author’s account of the play’s journey. Source 1
Social disorder inside a private encounter
In the summary, Rabihavi distinguishes identifying himself as a political writer from attending to social disorder in his work. The report frames the play through a private relationship and sexual politics. It records the discussion in compressed form, not the complete words spoken in the broadcast. Source 1
Sources & credits
- Radio Farda · Stoning in London
Shahran Tabari’s interview report, 22 August 2002. The item describes the broadcaster as Radio Azadi and summarises Rabihavi’s discussion of the play.