Ali Nassirian and a Modern Iranian “National” Theatre
Ali Nassirian (b. 1935), now a celebrity in Iranian cinema, was preoccupied, during the 1950s to the 1970s, with the idea of creating a theatre, and supplying it with a repertoire, which would be rooted in Iranian folklore and indigenous theatrical forms. His oeuvre includes thirteen plays, most of...
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crjohnshopkinsun:10.1353/atj.2012.0039 2024-03-03T08:47:04+00:00 Ali Nassirian and a Modern Iranian “National” Theatre Sohi, Behzad Ghaderi Ghorbaninejad, Masoud 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/atj.2012.0039 en eng Project MUSE Asian Theatre Journal volume 29, issue 2, page 495-527 ISSN 1527-2109 Visual Arts and Performing Arts journal-article 2012 crjohnshopkinsun https://doi.org/10.1353/atj.2012.0039 2024-02-03T23:21:04Z Ali Nassirian (b. 1935), now a celebrity in Iranian cinema, was preoccupied, during the 1950s to the 1970s, with the idea of creating a theatre, and supplying it with a repertoire, which would be rooted in Iranian folklore and indigenous theatrical forms. His oeuvre includes thirteen plays, most of which draw, partly or extensively, on Iranian popular improvisatory forms. This article discusses the context, possibilities, and limitations of Nassirian’s one-man crusade to launch a “national” theatre based on indigenous roots, especially at a historical moment when Iran—at the brink of entering a new socioeconomic phase which we may call the “South” social formation—was forced to adopt a hurried, hence “lopsided,” version of North Atlantic modernity in the form of statist modernization programs. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Johns Hopkins University Press Asian Theatre Journal 29 2 495 527 |
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Ali Nassirian (b. 1935), now a celebrity in Iranian cinema, was preoccupied, during the 1950s to the 1970s, with the idea of creating a theatre, and supplying it with a repertoire, which would be rooted in Iranian folklore and indigenous theatrical forms. His oeuvre includes thirteen plays, most of which draw, partly or extensively, on Iranian popular improvisatory forms. This article discusses the context, possibilities, and limitations of Nassirian’s one-man crusade to launch a “national” theatre based on indigenous roots, especially at a historical moment when Iran—at the brink of entering a new socioeconomic phase which we may call the “South” social formation—was forced to adopt a hurried, hence “lopsided,” version of North Atlantic modernity in the form of statist modernization programs. |
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