Bread and Bird Or Nine Persian Miniatures
Directed by: Andrzej Welminski
University of Tehran
Premiere: December 22nd, 2015
Bread and Bird Or Nine Persian Miniatures is the spectacle staged out of fascination for traditional Persian theatre Kheimeh Shab Bazi and Naqqāli, Persian miniatures, carpets, poems by Rumi, esotericism and ecstatic dervish dances.
the elements of the spectacle:
Overture: Unrolling coils
Miniature 1: Bread and Bird
Miniature 2: Juggling rug - Naqqāli theatre and unfortunate termination of a story too long
Miniature 3: Carpet unrolling ceremonies
Miniature 4: The Orient Express rail journey
Miniature 5: Disaster on the rails, …and further ahead a hat was laying, shining, untouched.
Miniature 6: In the tunnel
Miniature 7: Dervish awakening
Miniature 8: Common whirling or on the revolutions of the bodies…
Miniature 9: Nocturne – The starry sky above me
Epilogue: and all will be buried in …
it only remains to sweep the leftovers off