A Moment of Silence
by CTX Theatre - Concordia University
Nov. 08 - Nov. 11, 2018
Thursday-Sunday
Shiva wakes up to find she has been asleep for three years. In that time, the world around her has changed drastically. Her friends and family seem different. Strangers act oddly. It’s Iran in 1980 and she has just slept through the Islamic Revolution. For the next ten years, Shiva continues to fall asleep for years at a time. Each time she wakes up there’s a new change she has to try to grasp: the war with Iraq, a series of murders of dissident artists as well as transformations in her own family. Meanwhile, the playwright creating Shiva’s story begins to receive phone calls threatening her life.
A Moment of Silence by Mohammad Yaghoubi — one of the most beloved Iranian plays of the last 30 years — is a surreal, poetic, and surprisingly comic meditation on Iran’s turbulent history.
Winner of The Toronto Fringe Festival’s 2015 New Play Contest and The Playwrights’ Society of Iran’s 2012, Award for Outstanding Play prize The New Play Contest, Toronto Fringe Festival, 2016.
Translated by Torange Yeghiazarian and Mohammed Yahoubi
“The play’s meta-theatrical qualities and life-like characterization present a surreal, poetic, and surprisingly comic meditation on Iran’s turbulent history and Iranians’ experience of unexpected “change” and its aftermath. “ --The Theatre Times
A Moment of Silence
by Mohammad Yaghoub
CTX Theatre - Concordia University
November 08 - November 11, 2018
November 8-10, 2018 at 7:30 pm and November 11 at 2 pm
The Black Box Theatre (Building B), Concordia University Texas, 11400 Concordia University Drive, Austin 78726
Tickets: $10.00 general admission, concordia.edu/theatretickets
