Sayeh Sirvani
- Live performance
- LE GRAND SUD, Lille
- 25min
La Lune
“We did not know how many cycles of moons it would take for Afghanistan to be reborn, but we were slowly moving forward, patiently, until the day an earthquake called the Taliban destroyed our city of dreams and massacred our hopes.”
“Look, the moon is fine and delicate, like the little baby in my belly. Tomorrow it will become a little bigger and will continue every night until it is complete. You have to see a full moon nine times for a child to be born.” The story of this solo was written by Sayah Sirvani, an Iranian director and author who inspired the life of Razia Wafaeizada, the talented Afghan actress who has been living in Strasbourg since Taliban returned to Afghanistan. She’s playing the solo. The Moon evokes, with much poetry, the status of women in Afghanistan, their place in this society and their way of fighting for freedom.
- Accessibility information:
Presence of spoken texts in French and Farsi
Surtitled show
Ticket coupled with Inside Kaboul and Yaran – Live
With the support of Onda – Office national de diffusion artistique
Biography(s)
Iranian actor-puppeteer and director Sayeh Sirvani joined the Fine Arts Department at the University of Tehran in 2009 in the puppet theatre section. She graduated from the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mézières in 2019 (11th class).
For her first creation, L’ivresse des profondeurs, she was a companion at Tas De Sable – Ches Panses Vertes, then in production delegated by the World Puppet Theatre Festival.
In spring 2021 she creates the 1001 company based in Charleville-Mézières, whose ambition is to cross the puppet theatre with the art of storytelling, inspired by the heritage of Iranian culture, to bring this traditional culture into dialogue with contemporary art. It is a question of approaching subjects that can be political in a poetic way, thanks to the magic of the puppet arts. It questions our contemporary political situation, the violence of history in wars and dictatorships, the place of religion in
In 2022, she joined the Fluxus Arts and Cultural Business Incubator set up by the DRAC Grand Est to develop the 1001 company. Sayeh is associated with ESPACE 110 – Illzach Cultural Centre for the seasons 22-23, 23-24 and 24-25.
In her work, Sayeh is interested in materials including fabric and she explores the construction of modular marionette costumes that function both as manipulative objects, as scenography or as transforming masks for performers.
Credits
Directed, author, costumes Sayeh Sirvani
Performance Razia Wafaeizada
Translation help Camille Drai
Photos Ali baba Safdari
Project led by the Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne, the TJP CDN Strasbourg – Grand Est, POLE-SUD CDCN, the Théâtre National de Strasbourg, Musica, the Opéra national du Rhin, Jazzdor and the Ososphère, with the support of the City of Strasbourg.
