Azade Shahmiri - Quasi

Reservations are closed. Members who have already registered can collect their free ticket at the box office at Beursschouwburg, Brussels on the day of the event.

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Two dates:

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•   TH 24.03 20:30 
•   FR 25.03 20:30 

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The camera pans nervously along the floor. Closeups show half-faces, hands on tables, or curling cigarette smoke. The fragmentary nature of these shots taken in a Tehran coffeehouse in 2001 is the starting point for stage director and playwright Azade Shahmiri’s new evening of theatre. Here she weaves the unfinished, quasi­documentary film footage by film director Hamid Jafari with subtle live moments. Three characters talk about life in present-day Iran, overcoming the constraints of time, place, and body. The stories are incomplete, open, interwoven, underscoring the permeability of identities. Like the work VOICELESSNESS before it (2019), QUASI is a powerful reflection on the emergence of narrative; it too illustrates the need for resistance to oppressive circumstances. Another world is possible!