Azade Shahmiri

Quasi

brut nordwest
Theatre Duration: approx. 110 min Farsi with German and English surtitles
Wiener Festwochen

The camera pans nervously along the floor. Closeups show half-faces, hands on tables, or curling cigarette smoke.

, © Leila Ahmadi Abadeh

Azade Shahmiri – Quasi

INFO: From May 14th 2021, 10am, you have the possibility of buying your tickets in the Wiener Festwochen webshop, by phone with a credit card or at our Box Office in the foyer of Halle E+G at MuseumsQuartier.

The fragmentary nature of these shots taken in a Tehran coffeehouse in 2001 is the starting point for stage director and playwright Azade Shahmiri’s new evening of theatre. Here she weaves the unfinished, quasi­documentary film footage by film director Hamid Jafari with subtle live moments. Three characters talk about life in present-day Iran, overcoming the constraints of time, place, and body. The stories are incomplete, open, interwoven, underscoring the permeability of identities. Like Voicelessness before it, which was presented at the Wiener Festwochen in 2019, Quasi is a powerful reflection on the emergence of narrative; it too illustrates the need for resistance to oppressive circumstances. Another world is possible!

Credits

Text, Direction Azade Shahmiri With Isar Aboumahboub, Naghmeh Manavi, Melika Shokri Dramaturgy Leila Ahmadi Abadeh Film Hamid Jafari Camera Mohammad Reza Delshad Light design Saba Kasmaei Sound, Video Hesam Saleh Beig

Coproduction Wiener Festwochen, Kaserne Basel

Premiere June 2021, Wiener Festwochen

Dates & Tickets

June 2021

Mon. 14.06.2021, 19:30
€ 20

Tue. 15.06.2021, 19:30
€ 20

Wed. 16.06.2021, 19:30
€ 20

Thu. 17.06.2021, 19:30
€ 20

Fri. 18.06.2021, 16:00
€ 20

Fri. 18.06.2021, 19:30
€ 20

Sat. 19.06.2021, 16:00
€ 20

Sat. 19.06.2021, 19:30
€ 20

brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
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