TEHRAN – Tehran's Mehregan Theater will be playing host to reading performances of American absurdist playwright Arthur Kopit’s play “Chamber Music”.

The performances set for Thursday and Friday will be directed by Sara Daruforush with a cast of 20 actors, including Arezu Irankhah, Avina Baqai, Farhan Azizi, Kimia Samadi and Hamideh Haqdel. 

The one-act play is set in 1938 and concerns eight famous women from different historical periods who all are interned in the same insane asylum.

The women believe they are author Gertrude Stein, martyr Joan of Arc, activist Susan B. Anthony, politician Queen Isabella I of Spain, pilot Amelia Earhart, silent-film actress Pearl White, explorer Osa Johnson and Constanze Mozart, the wife of the famous composer.

They have come together to represent the women of the asylum in planning for an attack they believe is soon to come from the men’s ward.

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