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Towards a Theatre of Unknown and Dialogue of Civilizations! 

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“Engaging, Fantastical, and Speculative” The Broadway World

Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King

January 12-15, 2023-Free Admission 

At American Repertory Theater

Loeb Experimental Theater: 64 Beattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138

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“A unique theatrical enterprise inspired by both western and eastern theatrical traditions, and rooted in the organic connections among artists working within a minimalist production design.” MIZAN

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Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King is presented as part of American Repertory Theater’s Dialogue of Civilizations program in coordination with Boston Experimental Theatre.

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“I found the show quite revealing of how the language of mythology has different energies and transformations across cultures. There is much to explore in the way Vahdat Yeganeh’s theatrical sensibility has been shaped by his exposure to archetypes in the Iranian context. And this finds expression in his use of color and the strange affinity to the dream-like score of the piano by Engin Ozsahin.” Rustom Bharucha-writer, director, and cultural critic. Author of ‘Theatre and the World’ and ‘The Politics of Cultural Practice’. 

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“This show reaches into the bones and invites of the breath and is worth embracing multiple times.” Tamera Marko-Executive Director of the Elma Lewis Center, Emerson College

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“I recommend watching the production twice. It is worth it as the richness of the production increases the second time and no doubt the third too.” Heather Waters-editor at The Theatre Times. 

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“Located at the interstices of theatre, music, and storytelling, it wove a compelling story with movement and sound.” Dr.Robert Lublin-Professor of Theatre Arts, College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts Boston

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M(O)ther 

Watch Vahdat Yeganeh’s Adaptation of Antonin Artaud’s Spurt of Blood & To Have Done With the Judgment of God ↓↓

Studying Antonin Artaud with Vahdat Yeganeh at Rehearsal: ↓↓

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 The Last Dream

 

The Last Dream documentary was nominated for The 43rd Boston/New England Emmy Award. The Last Dream is part of The Massachusetts TPS Committee campaign for permanent residency for more than 350,000 Temporary Protected Status (TPS) families across the country. As a collaboration with Boston Experimental Theatre Company the play toured along the east coast, and performed before Congress, Boston City Hall, Boston University, Harvard University, and was part of the National TPS alliance’s 2019 TPS People Summit in DC. Inspired by this play, members of Boston Neighborhood Network (BNN) produced a twenty-minute documentary entitled The Last Dream, so that many more people in Massachusetts and across the country can hear these histories and join their fight. Our Families Are Not Temporary! Click Here to Watch the Documentary 

“Following a number of collaborative productions between Iranian and American artists, the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States in 2016 sent BETC on a new and unexpected trajectory.” Mizan (Read more)

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“The ability to share our pains and dreams through our own languages and music is what make us the happiest at the end of each rehearsal. We hope that through this production, our audiences personally and deeply experience the connection produced among these artists.” The Theatre Times Interviews Vahdat Yeganeh. (Read More)

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Watch BNN reports about M(O)ther, including videos from rehearsals discussing racism and wars in the Middle East and the U.S. (Watch Here)

Read The Theatre Times review of M(O)ther! 

Read Broadway World review of M(O)ther! 

Theatre of Activism 

Watch VOA story about The Last Dream performance in Washington, DC

Watch Our Actors Talking about The Last Dream 

Read WBUR review on Last Dream at Harvard University 

Read PRI’s The World about The Last Dream in Washington DC

Immigrant Report Writes about The Last Dream

OXFAM Interview with Jacqueline, 17-year-old actor of The Last Dream 

 Boston Pilot Writes about The Last Dream  

Read The Daily Free Press review on the Last Dream at Boston University

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“I walked away from FISH TREES with exactly the feeling you should always have after experiencing a piece of theater (but so seldom do!): completely energized and inspired. Boston is fortunate to have a small, daring company like BETC which takes big risks, challenges the mind and sparks the imagination.” Remo Airaldi, Lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media (Harvard University) (Read more)

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“What an exemplary experience! I really was transported into a dream reality” Michael Alexander Cook (Read more)

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“Boston Experimental Theatre’s approach to The Blind Owl resulted in a performance that did not simplify Hedayat’s dark and penetrating work but rather translated its profundity and energy to the stage.” Dr. Robert Lublin (Read more)

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“Excellent work! The productions I saw were highly inventive, very imaginatively directed, committed and dedicated productions. Vahdat’s work is experimental and theatrical in the good sense of the words; it’s innovative without being pretentious.” Daniel Gidron

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“Edgy, provocative, dreamlike, and thought-provoking. This is a theater that engages the audience and challenges them at the same time.” John Bechard

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“Is it theater? I guess it is, but I don’t feel comfortable describing it as that. It’s art. It’s therapy. It’s history.” Mollie Grewe

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“Maybe as someone said of poetry, a theater piece should not “mean” but merely “be”…Great theater tends to pry open the eyes as well as the mind, making everything look , and feel  different.” Larry Stark on Crying Deer (read more) 

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