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The Merchant of Venice in Tehran (1928)

These photographs show one of the earliest performances of a Western-style play in Iran. The play was Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice performed in Zoroastrians Club in Tehran , April 19, 1928. Majid Rezvani was the director. Arbab Aflatoon, a Zoroastrian, was the Merchant of Venice, and Kazem Bakhtiari acted as a female character. In those days the Iranian women still could not act in the plays yet. * Photographer: Jahangir Mossavar Rahmani- From the personal collection of Yadollah Rezvani.

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