Adaptation of “Playing for the Time” on stage at Tehran theater
“Playing for the Time” ،at Tehran’s Mashayekhi Hall.
An Iranian troupe led by director Kamal Zarei is performing a play based on American playwright Arthur Miller’s screenplay “Playing for the Time”, at Tehran’s Mashayekhi Hall.
Atila Pesyani is the writer of the play titled “Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz”.
The play tells the real story of Fania Fenelon, an acclaimed Jewish musician, who is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. As a singer and pianist she finds that she will be able to avoid hard manual labor and survive longer by becoming a member of the prison’s female orchestra, Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz.
Sajieh Ashuri, Sepideh Jafari and Mohsen Ranjbar are the main members of the cast for the play, which will be on stage until December 13.