Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World (NHB Modern Plays).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alipoor, Javaad, author.

Series:

NHB Modern Plays.

NHB Modern Plays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farrukhʹzād, Farīdūn,.

Farrukhʹzād, Farīdūn.

Singers--Iran--Drama.

Singers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (48 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : NHB Modern Plays, 2023.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Javaad Alipoor's play Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, written with Chris Thorpe, is a theatrical investigation into the death of the real-life Iranian pop star Fereydoun Farrokhzad, whose murder in exile in 1992 has never been solved. Part free-wheeling lecture, part podcast and part play, it is an investigation into the nature of investigation, sorting through the tangle of information available online to reveal the limits of the search engines in solving a decades-old cold case. It was first performed on 22 October 2022 at HOME, Manchester. It has subsequently toured worldwide, including a run at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, during the 2023 Festival Fringe. The play weaves together three strands: a Narrator who speaks to the audience in direct address, presenting research to the audience and illustrating this with projection; a Podcaster whose true-crime podcast about unsolved murders is delivered from a live on-stage podcasting booth; and a Musician, the Iranian-born Raam Emami, whose story echoes some of the details of Farrokhzad's life. In a Foreword to the published script (Nick Hern Books, 2023), Javaad Alipoor writes: ' Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World is the final part of a trilogy of plays that I began writing in 2017. I knew I wanted this last part to stand alone whilst speaking to the relationship between politics and technology, history and the present that has been the thread connecting all three plays. Retelling and trying to understand how to retell this story has helped me find a way to do that and to really confront what it means to think of the world as something like the internet, research as a kind of deep dive and tracing the way the 'democratisation' of the thirst for knowledge reproduces older networks of power.' The premiere production was directed by Javaad Alipoor and performed by Javaad Alipoor, Asha Reid and Raam Emami.

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ISBN:

9781784607906

1784607908

9781788507141

1788507142

OCLC:

1433097561