Tehran theater hall stages Pinter’s ‘Room’

English playwright Harold Pinter’s play ‘The Room’ has been staged at a theater hall in the Iranian capital city of Tehran.

The Iranian adaption of the English play was written and directed by Fatemeh Alihosseini and is currently on stage at the Tehran City Theater.

‘The Room’ marks Pinter’s first play, which was written in 1957. The story takes place in a single room, where a couple, their old landlord and another young couple speak about various, and sometimes irrational, subjects.

The climax of the story builds when a blind black man, who was purportedly waiting in the basement, suddenly arrives upstairs to the room to deliver a mysterious message.

Alihosseini said she selected the play after studying Pinter’s works as part of her university project.

“I believe ‘The Room’ is Pinter’s most complete work which influenced his later works in a way that some of the characters reappeared in other plays by the author,” she said.

Pinter (1930-2008) – a screenwriter, director and actor – won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. He is one of the most influential modern British dramatists whose writing career spanned more than 50 years.

Other notable works by the English author include ‘The Homecoming’ and ‘Betrayal’.

The cast of ‘The Room’ includes Morteza Esmailkashi, Roya Mirelmi, Rahim Norouzi, Elaheh Shahparast and Farshid Torabi.

The Tehran City Theater will stage the play until June 17.

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