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Amir Reza Koohestani,
Mahin Sadri
Director/
Set design/Lighting design
Amir Reza Koohestani
Video
Hesam Nourani
Sound Design
Ankido Darash
Cast
Attila Pesiani
Mohammad Hassan Madjouni
Baran Kosari
Mahin Sadri
Production
Mehr Theatre Group
Teheran/Schiras
Co-production
Festival THEATERFORMEN Braunschweig/Hannover
Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Br�ssel)
Holland Festival (Amsterdam)
Wiener Festwochen
Production manager/Assistant director
Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh
Technical director
Hesam Nourani
2nd Directing Assistant
Rohollah Haghgouye Lesan
Stage Manager
Raha Shirazi
Mani Ghajar
Music/ Sound
Ankido Darash
Stage Assistant
Bavand Behpoor
Set construction
Aran Ebrahimi
Mani Ghajar
Internat. communication
Negar Nobakht
Publicity
Abbas Ghafari
Graphic Design
Pedram Harbi
Photographer
Skokooteh Hashemian
Quartet: A Journey to North
Duration: appr. 85 minutes, no interval
Four people have been killed. Four witnesses appear and take their seats in the centre of a space. They are forced to sit back to back, eye contact is not possible. This is the central motif of the performance: only the audience, also split into four separate groups, is able to put together the whole picture from the individual stories of what has happened, while the speakers are increasingly isolated. Amongst them are two murderers. This play by the Iranian director Amir Reza Koohestani reminds us of an actual police investigation and is based on two real life cases which caused a great controversy in Iran. Images by young film-maker Mahin Sadri add an emotional dimension to the performance. Text and images set off on a journey towards a land that cannot be entered: the inner core of human beings. It creates the paradoxical experience that talking about death as a way of dealing with it becomes both liberating and nauseating � for both murderers and bereaved.
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