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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Tehran University to honor Eugene Ionesco

Tehran University is planning to hold a seminar marking the 100th birth anniversary of the world-renowned dramatist Eugene Ionesco.

The seminar, to be held from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2009, will host Iranian scholars and literary experts as well as theater directors.

Theater expert Farhad Nazerzadeh, stage director Farhad Ayeesh, filmmaker Benyamin Esbati, veteran theater director Qotbeddin Sadeqi and stage designer Khosrow Khorshidi will be among those attending the event.

Theater scholar Ahmad Kamyabi-Mask, who has interviewed Ionesco and wrote many books on his plays, will also attend the seminar delivering lectures on avant-garde theater.

Award-winning Iranian theater director Amir-Reza Kouhestani will give a speech on the new mise en scenes for Ionseco's Rhinoceros.

Romanian and French playwright and dramatist Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994), was one of the greatest figures of the Theater of the Absurd.

His works mostly depict the solitude and insignificance of human existence.

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