Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran - Softcover

Soheil Parsa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887548199 ISBN 13: 9780887548192

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press/Nick Hern Books, 2009

Synopsis

Stories from the Rains of Love and Death is a quintet of interrelated one-act plays written in 1977. Aurash is a Persian myth dating back over one thousand years. The Death of the King is a retelling of Persian history. Interrogation tells a timeless truth: nothing enduring can be built on violence.

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About the Author

Soheil Parsa is an award-winning director, actor, writer, dramaturge, choreographer, and teacher whose professional theatre career spans two continents. In his native Iran, he completed studies in theatre performance at the University of Tehran and began a career as an actor and director. Arriving in Canada with his family in 1984, he completed a second Bachelor of Arts in theatre studies at York University and then went on to establish Modern Times Stage Company as one of the most exciting culturally diverse theatre companies in Canada. As a director, set and stage designer, translator, adaptor, choreographer, and actor, his work is based on his experience in Iran and focuses on oppression and loss of freedom.

Edition details

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press/Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887548199
• ISBN 13: 9780887548192
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130