Amir Reza Koohestani & Mehr Theatre Group

Ivanov

von Anton Tschechow

«We are all Ivanov» posted a young Iranian actress on Facebook, alluding to the play directed by her compatriot Reza Amir Koohestani. The theatre and film director has staged this social case study, premièred in 1889, with an infallible instinct for the topicality of Chekhov’s drama about a stagnant society. His contemporary setting of «Ivanov» — performed unobtrusively yet with high precision by a cast of excellent actors — touches a nerve with young Iranians, stripped as they are of all illusions. (esc)