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Lalezar avenue, Tehran - خیابان لاله زار

Lalezar, Remains of a Past

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With the destruction of Lalehzar’s oldest theaters not much of its historic buildings will remain. These pictures show the last remnants of Lalehzar’s once great buildings and its historic past. (→ See old Lalezar avenue)

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The Merchant of Venice in Tehran (1928)

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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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Sultan of Qeys and the Soldiers of Amre Saʾd

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A brief look at the European-looking characters in the Iranian “Ashura” passion plays, their role in the story, and their relationship to the recent invasion of the British embassy.

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A Passion Play for Fatima Soghra

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A Shiite passion play for Fatima Soghra in Persian.

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