Iranian of the Day

Mehrdad Seyf was born in Tehran and has lived in the UK since his teens. He trained as an actor/director with Theatre de Complicite, Monica Pagneux, Rick Zoltowski and Lorna Marshall. In 1996 he co-founded 30 Bird Productions, an Anglo-Iranian film and theatre company based in London. His play THE PERSIAN REVOLUTION was staged at Lyric Hammersmith in London last fall. The play travels through layers of time and across the decades. From the vaudeville halls of 19th Century England to a corner of Tehran where a child avidly reads the adventures of Tintin. America lands on the moon whilst an Islamic cleric searches the sky for God and children learn about the electoral law of 1906. The sound of the Revolution encroaches upon everyday life as the East awakens and takes its first tentative steps towards a democratic government. In this dark comedy Mehrdad Seyf brings an anarchic surrealist humour to these momentous events where politics, religion, love, satire, sanitation and civil war go hand in hand with the fragile establishment of the first secular parliament in the Middle East. The Anglo/Iranian Cast are ALI AMADI, DONALD SLACK, VISS ELLIOT, SARAH McNEALE, TAHMORES TEHRANI, directed by MEHRDAD SEYF design by LESLIE TRAVERS and lighting design by ANNA WATSON.