Adaptation

Kheimeh Shab Bazi

Pinter’s The Caretaker, reworked in a contemporary Tehran setting.

Transliterated production title. A loose adaptation of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker.

The work

Radio Farda’s 2014 festival report identifies Kheimeh Shab Bazi as Rabihavi’s loose adaptation of Pinter’s The Caretaker. It places the action in Tehran and describes a satirical view of contemporary life. Source 14

A later Kayhan London report records Rabihavi directing and acting alongside Mohammad Heidari. Their presentation was outside the festival competition. Source 15

Production and reading history

  1. Adaptation in performance

    2014 · exact performance day unverified · Reported after the festival

Sources and distinctions

  1. Radio Farda · London theatre festival, 2014

    Mohammad Abdi, 31 July 2014: Kheimeh Shab Bazi as a loose adaptation of Pinter.

  2. Kayhan London · festival report, 2014

    Retrospective report, 23 August 2014: Rabihavi directing and performing alongside Mohammad Heidari.