Abbas Ghaffari's narration of the play "I wanted to be a horse"

"I wanted to be a horse" Written by Mohammad Charmshir the work of Abbas Ghaffari and produced by Maryam Naraghi, it will be on stage at Noflushato Mansion from January 10, at 8:30 PM, and Maryam Moeini, Mojdeh Hodaei, Darya Yaseri, and Reyhaneh Hangji will play in it.

 Abbas Ghaffari in an interview with HonarOnline reporter about the charms of choosing the play "I wanted to be a horse" and its performance said: Mohammad Charmshir wrote this play in 2004 based on the book "Memoirs of a Young Girl". This book is memoirs and notes from Ann Frank. She was a woman killed by the Germans in World War II. "Memoirs of a Young Girl" has very good translations and Charmshir has written this book. 

"This is the story of four Jewish women who have been imprisoned underground for four years for fear of being killed by German soldiers. Some of them have become disbelievers because of what has happened to them, and they are looking for their lost faith in the conversations and challenges between them, and they want to find it again, he added."

Ghaffari, while stating that the play "I wanted to be a horse" was staged in the guest section of the Women's Theater Festival in 2004, said "Since then, I have been interested in bringing this play to the stage one day.

The events between these four women in the basement where they are imprisoned are very relevant to us today. In the nearly two years that we have been dealing with corona disease, many definitions such as faith, love, etc. have changed in human societies. I believe that the play "I Wanted to Be a Horse" is very close to the life of human societies. I have always been interested in the social approach in the works I have staged so far, and this work is not far from my other works."

Mentioning that the events of the play "I Want to Be a Horse" take place in the Netherlands during the Second World War, the theater director noted "This show is anti-war and this is another attraction for me." He clarified his level of loyalty to the play: "I have not made any changes in the text and not even a word of it has been moved, because this work speaks for itself today and is complete in every way, but its directorial and executive form is different from 2004."

 Abbas Ghaffari reminded about the style and performance space of the play "I Want to Be a Horse" Because the story of this play is very realistic, but I had an unrealistic look at the lighting and stage design. In designing the scene, I took a look at the arrangement and structure of life of my compatriots, and the clothes were also designed based on the clothing worn by women in World War II". 

"Beautiful play and very good and different roles of the actors are the features of this play. The show's message is to look once again at our living conditions and what we have simply lost, and the fact that war changes us, our outlook and our lives", he added.

The play will be staged with a capacity of 50% to calm the audience at the end of his speech, Ghaffari said that he asked the theater audience to watch plays because if without the support of the audience, in addition to the economic cycle of theater does not rotate, theater without spectators does not have its original meaning and nature. "I Want to Be a Horse" is not a comedy, musical and happy theater, and its words are serious and incidentally bitter, but my and my group's social duty was to stage such a play in this situation.