Livestreaming Schedule
Wednesday 15 December 2021
Performance of The 40th Man or the 28th Woman (Iran) by Saeb Mir
9 a.m. PST (Los Angeles, UTC -8) / 12 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 17:00 GMT (London, UTC +0) / 18:00 CET/WAT (Berlin/Lagos UTC +1) / 20:00 EAT (Kampala, UTC +3)
The play tells the story of an unspecified area where twenty-seven women and thirty-nine men live. Everything is fine at first, but one day a disease enters the village that kills all the men in a few days. We hear the story of this village and what happened in that village from the language of the last man alive who dies in a few minutes.
The village is overwhelmed with fear and all the women in the village are afraid of losing their offspring. This man has a pregnant woman and this woman is the only hope for this village. All the women in the village are waiting to see whether it’s a boy or girl. Forty men or twenty eight women!?
The baby is born, it is a boy. But this is not the end of the story. Women are faced with something they didn't even think about...
Artist Bio
Saeb Mir, born 23 October 1991 in Iran. Writer and director of theatre, who began his career as an actor since the beginning of his career and continued as a writer and director. During his career, he has authored ten plays, of which seven have been performed. He gained his first directorial experience in 2012 year when he won the best Iranian director's award of the same year. In addition to attending the Fajr Theater Festival three times, winning an International Competition, and receiving the award for Best Director and Best writer for the Short Theater Festival, he also won an Iranian Monologue Festival. Featured by critics of the Fajr Provincial Festival Selection, the best stage design from this festival is another part of his awards. He also won his first international appearance at the Ukraine Art Festival, which had its tenth season in the city of St. Petersburg, winning him the prize for best theater of the festival, making him the first Iranian to participate in the festival. His most recent writing these days is trying to attend various international festivals.
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