The documentary

Suggestive drama with Iranian stars.

In this newly written play, Amir Reza Koohestani invites us to follow a documentary recording about a newly married couple. An Iranian woman and a Swedish man, who do not speak each other's language, have met abroad. When a familiar documentary film director, also Iranian, asks if she can shoot a documentary about their relationship, they agree. The couple, who previously experienced the relationship and their cultural differences as something completely undramatic, suddenly begin to discover things that rub and disturb.

The play explores, from a female perspective of someone coming from outside, what it means to break away from an old world and be expected to adapt to a new one.

The main role is played by Mahin Sadri, Mårten Andersson plays her husband, and as the documentary filmmaker we see Susan Taslimi. To an Iranian audience, she is widely known as the actress who was banned from working in her home country since she defied and criticized the regime.

Koohestani broke through internationally with Dance on Glasses and in recent years has done, among other things, great success with Woyzeck Interrupted at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.

Played in Swedish, English and Persian, with subtitles in Swedish and English in the decor.