TEHRAN-The play “An Ordinary Circuit” written by Jean-Claude Carrière will be staged in Rasht, capital of Gilan Province, for one week, from July 27 to August 2.

Mehrdad Honarmand is the director of the play that has been renamed “Normal Routine”. Honarmand also performs in the play. Together with Saeed Hoseini, they are the only actors of the play, which will be performed at Afra Theater Hall.

In the play, two men are together in an office. One is a police inspector, who has summoned the other who is an informer. A shady conversation ensues between the two men, and little by little, the secrets of a circuit are revealed. And it is not necessarily the man who one might think is the best placed and better-informed who, in the end, will win over the other.

Jean-Claude Carrière (1931–2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He was noted as a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of the latter's late French films. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing “Heureux Anniversaire” (1963), and was later conferred an Honorary Oscar in 2014.

He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (1972), “That Obscure Object of Desire” (1977), and “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (1988). He also won a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in “The Return of Martin Guerre” (1983).

In over 65 years, Carrière wrote about 150 screenplays in collaboration with some of postwar cinema’s most iconoclastic filmmakers, among them Luis Buñuel, Louis Malle, Milos Forman, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrzej Wajda, Nagisa Oshima, Peter Brook, and Jonathan Glazer.

He was the only non-US screenwriter to receive lifetime achievement awards from the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Writers Guild.

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