TEHRAN – Actor/director Shahab Hosseini who won the Cannes Palme d’Or for best actor last year plans to stage a play titled “confession” in Tehran.

Hosseini, Ali Nasirian and Nima Reisi are the main members of the cast for the play, which will soon premiere at the main hall of Tehran’s City Theater Complex, the complex announced in a press release on Sunday.

However, no further details were given in the report.

Hosseini made his stage directorial debut with “Meeting” at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center in 2012.

He won the Palme d’Or for best actor for his role in Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning drama “The Salesman” at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016.

Photo: Shahab Hosseini poses during a photocall after accepting the Palme d’Or for best actor for his role in “The Salesman” at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 22, 2016. (Photo by Reuters) 

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