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Passion player
The theater of Reza Abdoh
April 10, 2000
The Iranian
Excerpts and photos from Reza Abdoh, edited by Daniel Mufson
(1999, The Johns Hopkins University Press). Abdoh was born in Iran, raised
in England, and lived and work in New York and Los Angeles. He was the
recipient of a CalArts/Alpert Theater award in 1995 and a posthumous "Bassie,"
the Choreographer and Creator Award for Sustained Achievement. Several
of his plays toured extensively in Europe >>>
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TEHRAN, April 10 (Reuters) - An Iranian editor who challenged the Islamic
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a 30-month sentence imposed for criticising capital punishment.
Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, a leading reformist, was jailed for offending
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* Trashy escapist films
Ashraf Esfandiary
writes: In reference to "Farewell
to Fardin", in two words: Total rubbish!
The writer of your pompous obituary on Fardin is clearly ignorant of
everything about cinema. Fardin never wrote the screen plays of any film,
never directed any film, never edited any film and never produced any film.
He played in films under the directorial efforts and schemes of the
film makers, in his case mostly Siamak Yassemi. Therefore you cannot say
"Fardin's Cinema". Very unfortunately the films he played in
were escapist films of the worst kind...
Fardin seems to have been a simple, likeable person, a wrestler with
good looks who was used by a certain type of film producers alien to social
and artistic aims, who were riding on the crest of the incoming wave of
economical ease and the dream and expectation of an affluent life, all
in tune with the superficial state of things and the official propaganda
of the time >>>
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* Acknowledging Pop icons
Khosrow Vakili writes: I just read quite an angry
letter about "Farewell
to Fardin". I guess the author of the article on Fardin was right
in pointing out that, "to most Iranian intellectuals [Fardin] remained
an over-rated actor who represented a commercial cinema that was an embarrassment
to our national identity." ...
The article did not call Fardin a good or even a mediocre actor. Nor
did it praise his directorial talents. But every culture has its heroes
and icons. A healthy culture is one that acknowledges such individuals
and tries to live with them...
I am not concerned with the quality of Fardin's work. But you may find
it interesting that Fardin acted in fifty-seven films, directed eleven
of them, wrote the script for five pictures and produced seven...
For over twenty years we tried to isolate our pop icons; turning Fardin
into a carpet shop owner. And yet on Saturday the whole city of Tehran
was out to say goodbye to Fardin at his funeral >>>
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* Escrew you
Naseem Baharie
writes: Still some people don't get the joke about Albright ["Albright
in Tehran"]. Surely the Third-World mentality is still within
them therefore they haven't reached cultural maturity yet. Or, they just
got off the boat with pronunciations like :"Espoon, Espagetti, Eski,
Estay, Estop, I vant, or I vill." give them a few more years; they
will learn two things: how to talk and have sense of humor.
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Human soul
Reza Abdoh's work was in the broadest sense permanently located on the
heath: it was situated on the ground where there is no protection from the
storm, life as storm. Arounf the wretches gathered there he proceeded to
create a theater of fierce protectiveness, with an impulse to value every
human soul, down to the most vile.
-- Elinor Fuchs
"Passion
player"
The Iranian
April 10, 2000
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