TEHRAN? A play presently on phase at a Tehran theater allegorically satirizes the arrival of the very first vehicle in Iran during the Qajar period.
Director Shahruz Delafkar utilizes a cast of 25 amateur stars, who previously took part in his workshops, to stage? Otolsurun? (? Vehicle Launch Party?) written by Baqer Sorush.
The play takes the audience to Qajar king Mozaffar ad-Din Shah?s dream in the early years of the 1900s when he brought an auto to Iran for the first time.
The story includes signs from the history of the duration and notes the harem?s jealousy over the brand-new phenomenon.
The choice to bring the automobile to the country was made at a time when conditions in the society were such that there was extensive suffering from a growing addiction issue, rampant poverty, infectious illness and numerous other social and political crises.
The play satirically checks out the concern: what is the point of presenting the car to a society in which over 90 percent of the population are experiencing hunger and are illiterate, while furthermore their nation is being robbed by the Soviet Union and Britain???< p > In March 2021, Delafkar used another troupe in staging the play at Samandarian Hall in Tehran.