TEHRAN -- Troupes from Poland and the Netherlands will be giving several performances during the 35th Fajr International Theater Festival, the organizers announced on Tuesday.

Lisa Verbelen from the Dutch theater troupe BOG led by Judith de Joode is scheduled to stage a solo musical titled “One”.

The troupe has said that the play is about everything, including time, space, light, sounds, people, feelings and thoughts.

Dutch director Boukje Schweigman’s troupe Schweigman troupe will also perform “The Balloon”.

A number of Iranian and Dutch thespians is scheduled to jointly perform “Reconsider Your Image of Me” by Iranian director Arvand Dashtaray.

Dutch writers Cecile Brommer and Marene van Holk in collaboration with Iranian playwright Naghmeh Samini have worked on this play.

“Reconsider Your Image of Me” questions the images that we have of others and challenges the current state and impact of theater and art in our global society.

Polish troupe KTO, led by director Jerzy Zon is scheduled to stage the plays “Choir of the Orphans” and “Blindness” at the festival.

Inspired by French writer Guy Croussy’s “Blueberries”, “Choir of the Orphans” is about loneliness, childhood and growing up in an orphanage in France.

The troupe also plans to stage an adaptation of Portuguese author Jose Saramago’s prominent novel “Blindness”.

Based on Portuguese author Jose Saramago’s novel of the same name, “Blindness” tells the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows.

Twenty foreign troupes will perform at the 35th Fajr International Theater Festival, which will be held in Tehran from January 20 to 31.

The troupes from Spain, France, Iraq, Turkey, Georgia, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Greece, Japan, and several other countries will perform during the event.

Photo: Polish theater troupe KTO performs “The Blindness” in an undated photo.

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