“I am currently writing a play based on an adaptation of the ‘Blind Owl’ and director Azadeh Ansari will be taking this play on stage at the festival,” he told MNA.
“All the major characters of the story will be present in this puppet show. I have also made use of the character of writer Hedayat in this play. However, there might be some slight changes in the play before it goes on stage at the festival,” he added.
The festival usually runs in August in several of Tehran’s theaters. “Macondo”, an Iranian play directed by Ansari won the grand prize at the 12th Mobarak International Puppet Theater Festival last year.
On choosing the story for the puppet show, he said, “Blind Owl’ is an outstanding example of Iran’s contemporary literature and the troupe is highly enthusiastic about performing it on stage.”
“The Blind Owl,” about a painter who sees the presence of death in his murderous, feverish nightmares, is the most famous modern Persian novel both in Iran and Europe as well as in America.
It is considered Hedayat’s masterpiece and was not published in Iran until 1941. Many of Hedayat’s short stories, which have been translated in various languages, are regarded as among some of the best written in twentieth century Iran.
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