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Javaad Alipoor’s meditation on the grim fate of Iranian singer Fereydoun Farrokhzad develops into a thrilling investigation of the internet

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Oxford Playhouses joint-director LOUISE CHANTAL shares her delight at reopening her theatre... Many of us, over the last very long year, have rediscovered simple pleasures and vowed to never again take them for granted again. Along with pub lunches, window shopping and taking the train, I now count seeing an audience gather in the foyer or the crew sharing a joke by stage door as moments to treasure. After 15 nail-biting and exhausting months of closure, the Oxford Playhouse is open again. ...

BRADFORD Literature Festival is returning to live venues, with a line-up that includes best-selling writer Caitlin Moran, TV presenter Anita Rani and former Great Britain rugby league captain Ellery Hanley. The festival was virtual last year, due to the pandemic, but is back from June 25 to July 4 with half the events in city centre venues and outdoor locations, and the other half online. Guests include Bradford crime writer AA Dhand, childrens novelists Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Rosen ...

THE co-creator of Alan Partridge and stars from Ru Paul’s Drag Race are highlights of Bradford Fringe Festival, taking place in city venues this summer. The festival has a packed programme of theatre, comedy, dance and poetry from July 3 to August 1, headed by Oscar-nominated writer and satirist Armando Iannucci, in virtual conversation with Bradford film-maker Javaad Alipoor discussing film, screen and politics followed by an audience Q&A. Armando Iannucci has written, directed, and prod...

Published: 6:32 PM April 9, 2021    Aerial duo Gravity and Levity will perform at the Garden Party in Chapelfield Gardens at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2021. - Credit: Mark Morreau 2020 From cabaret to an installation in prison cells, the line-up for the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2021 is as diverse as ever. The annual arts festival returns from May 17 to May 30 and once again features a jam-packed programme of live music, theatre, art and literature.  This year will be a speciall...

Rock n Roll come immediately to mind - plays that wrestle with concepts (English identity and the diversities of passion) rather than the connect-the-dots plots of so many American plays. I might place Javaad Alipoor and Kristy Housleys Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran very much in the "theatre as exploration of ideas" camp, and it does so very well. I hesitate to even call it a "play" in any traditional sense. Is it an experience? An interaction? Whatever it is, it is definite...

Javaad Alipoor and Peyvand Sadeghian. Photo courtesy of Woolly Mammoth. As the world has now officially crossed over the one-year mark of a global pandemic, nothing and everything feels like it’s changed. Time has flown by, yet we continue to make memes about it still being March 2020. We acknowledge the increase in burnout and screen fatigue, yet we continue to turn to our devices to stay connected to others.  The perception of time is just one of many themes pulled apart and put back toget...

MEMO in conversation with Javaad Alipoor Our conversation with British-Iranian writer, theatremaker and director Javaad Alipoor discussing his most recent play Rich Kids, the Iranian politics that underline it and the role of art in politics. March 3, 2021 at 11:00 am Middle East Monitor caught up with British-Iranian writer and director Javaad Alipoor this week for a conversation about his work. He has been online-touring with his latest production Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls...