Play
Shirin
A household becomes a setting for questions of gender and sexual taboo.
The work
Introducing Shirin in 2016, an IranWire interview identifies Rabihavi as writer and director and describes one woman with four men in a house. Rabihavi discusses the possibilities and material limits of theatre in exile. Source 17
Jamileh Nedaei’s later festival review records the production and its personnel. Her criticism is strongly negative, adding a reception document to the work’s performance history. Source 18
Production and reading history
- Festival production
Advertised for 14–15 September 2016 · Advertised schedule; production subsequently reviewed
Sources and distinctions
IranWire · Shirin interview
Mohammad Tangestani, 9 September 2016: interview and announcement of 14–15 September performances.
Shahrvand · London festival review, 2016
Jamileh Nedaei, 17 November 2016: Shirin production and credits.