Friedrich Dürrenmatt

  • A new stage adaptation of Swiss author Friedrich Durrenmatt’s 1969 crime play Episode on an Autumn Evening is currently on stage at Tehran’s Divare Chaharom Theater. Akbar Hassani is the director of the play. Episode on an Autumn Evening is about a bookkeeper who makes a crash entry on a novelist. He’s noticed that the 21 murder mysteries the novelist is famed for just happen to coincide with 21 unsolved actual murders — and the novelist just happened to be in the vicinity at the time of each murder. The play was translated into Persian by the prominent Iranian stage director and playwright Hamid Samandarian who died of liver cancer at the age of 81 in summer 2012. A cast composed of Azizi, Alireza Madani and Elaheh Purehsan will stage the play until September 22.

  • TEHRAN. (HONARONLINE) – Divare Chaharom Theater, a private hall in downtown Tehran, is currently playing host to a small troupe performing Swiss author Friedrich Durrenmatt’s 1969 crime play Episode on an Autumn Evening.

  • Directed by Parsa Pirouzfar, new play The Visit has gone on stage in the City Theater of Tehran until 21 May. The Visit is a 1956 tragicomic play by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The play is about an enormously wealthy older woman returns to her former hometown with a dreadful bargain: She wants the townspeople to kill the man who got her pregnant, then jilted her. In exchange, she will provide enough money to revitalize the decrepit town. The townspeople eventually agree.

  • TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) – Iranian director Ehsan Falahatpisheh will restage Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt’s 1952 play “The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi” at the main hall of Tehran’s City Theater Complex tonight to celebrate the Iranian stage director and playwright, Hamid Samandarian, who translated the play into Persian in 1989, and Durrenmatt’s 98th birthday.