TEHRAN -- Pietro Floridia, the director of the Italian theater company Cantieri Meticci, in collaboration with the Iranian Mowj Theater Troupe, will be performing “The Violin of the Titanic” with a number of Iranian actors in Tehran’s City Theater Complex in December.

The performance is part of the “Making Out of Nothing” project, which is due to run in the Qashaqai Hall of the complex from December 1 to 19, director of the project Arash Abbasi told the Persian service of ISNA on Tuesday.

“Interested applicants can register for a workshop at www.arashabbasi.com, and a few actors will be selected for the week-long workshop followed by the performance,” Abbasi added.

“Pietro Floridia has performed the play in several countries including France, Poland, Brazil and Italy. He will be performing the play this time in Tehran,” he added.

Inspired by the story of the famous ocean liner, the show is an adaptation of “The Sinking of the Titanic” by German author Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

The show will place the audience aboard the same boat with the actors-refugees in order to allow them to experience from within the dynamics that the sinking and fighting for their lives can generate.

Photo: Italian director Pietro Floridia in an undated photo

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