Mard, Chahar Zanesh, va Madaresh ( مرد، چهار زنش، و مادرش) (Updated over a year ago)

A flyer of A Man, His Four Wives, and His Mother play.

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Identifier: Darvagx-013
Translated Title: A Man, His Four Wives, and His Mother
Date: May 25 May 1995
Creator: written by Sepideh Khosrowjah (Koosha)
Story: It is an episodic absurd play about how society sees the place of women and men. It is a satire about how a patriarchal system, specifically an Iranian one, functions and reproduces itself. The play starts with a woman who is the seventh girl in a family, and her parents have named her unwanted. The mother kept having children wishing for a boy, but she continued having girls. The mother was particularly unhappy with the seventh one, as she considered herself a failure for giving birth to too many girls. The play, inspired by Federico Fellini's style, the great Italian auteur, using music and light, portrays a society full of double standards and contradictions.
Geographic Coverage: Berkeley, CA
Language: Farsi