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Shahab Hosseini's 'The Confession' arrives at Iranian homes

Shahab Hosseini's play 'The Confession' arrives at Iranian homes.

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Iranian megastar Shahab Hosseini's stage play 'The Confession' has arrived at Iranian home entertainment market.

Video of the stage play entered the Iranian home entertainment market last week.

A 2018 production, the play stars Ali Nasiriyan, Saleh Aqa-Mirzaei, Nima Raeesi, Parviz Bozorgi, Shahram Ebrahimi, and the director, Hosseini.

It is an adaptation from 'The Confession' series which has been written and directed by Brad Mirman in 2011.

The plot revolves around a hitman and a priest discussing good and evil in a confessional on a snowy night. The confessor tells the priest that he has killed many people and he is not sorry for it, because they deserved to die. He also states that he will kill tonight, unless the priest hears his confession.

At first the priest refuses to be involved in the confessor's game, but after the confessor threatens the lives of the priest's congregation, he agrees to hear him out.

The confessor and the priest argue over whether people deserve to die, the existence of God, and whether the priest has ever sinned as badly as the confessor. The priest continually tries to get the confessor to admit that what he does is wrong, but the confessor is not looking for forgiveness.

Then the confessor forces the priest to reveal his worst sin. The priest confesses that he was once married, and had a young son. He was an alcoholic, and the more he drank, the angrier he became, and directed his anger at his family. The priest also confessed to burning his son's hand after the son broke his bottle of whiskey.

The confessor then shows his own hand to the priest, revealing a scar which he says he received from his father when he forced him to put his hand on the stove when he was eight years old.

The confessor says he was left by his father for three days in the apartment alone, before the landlord discovered him. He spent the next ten years in orphanages and foster homes, enduring molestation and physical abuse at the hands of his various foster parents.

Then the confessor reveals that he intends to kill the priest (his father) tonight. He explains that he saw him just a few days before, but could not be sure it was indeed his father, as he did not know he had become a priest. Once he looked into his eyes for a brief moment, he was sure of the priest's identity.

The priest begs the confessor for forgiveness, and later his own life. The confessor takes aim and fires a single gunshot at the priest, but misses intentionally. He holds to his original agreement: that if the priest agreed to hear his confession, he would not kill tonight.

The confessor tells the priest that he will not kill him, nor forgive him for what he did to him and his mother. He tells the priest that he will continue to kill, and will send him newspaper clippings of each killing, so the priest knows that his actions made the confessor the way he is, and he is responsible for their deaths.

Hosseini's play 'The Confession' was well-received by the audiences and sold out at the time of staging.

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