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Widely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie remains largely unknown to the English-speaking world.
Naqqali Trilogy blends traditional Iranian storytelling with contemporary philosophy and technique in a cycle of mythological revisionism. This volume presents a pinnacle of world drama for the first time in English translation.
About the author
Bahram Beyzaie is an Iranian filmmaker, theater director, playwright, educator, and scholar of the history of Iranian theater. Over the past fifty years, Beyzaie has written numerous papers and published more than seventy books, monographs, plays, and screenplays. Beyzaie is the Bita Daryabari Lecturer in Iranian Studies at Stanford University.Richard Saul Chason is an actor-playwright, dramaturg, literary critic, and translator based in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of national awards in theater criticism and scholarship from the Kennedy Center and is a fellow of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.Nikta Sabouri is an Iranian freelance theater director and translator based in Boston. She earned her B.A. in theater-directing at Tehran University and her M.A. in theater theory and dramaturgy at the University of Ottawa. She is the cofounder of Distant Realms Theatre Company.
Summary
Widely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie remains largely unknown to the English-speaking world. Naqqali Trilogy blends traditional Iranian storytelling with contemporary philosophy and technique in a cycle of mythological revisionism. This volume presents a pinnacle of world drama for the first time in English translation.
