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O PREDSTAVI Suprotno svim očekivanjima, saslušanje ne sprevode neki bradati fundamentalisti, nego studentkinja kojoj je poveren ključ spavaonice samo zato što je nešto starija od ostalih. Ona ne ispituje druge studentkinje iz ekstremnih religioznih ili političkih übedenja, več zbog toga što je uspela da sačuva svoju reputaciju i ne želi da ima bilo kakve probleme. Kada bi ljudi morali da se pravdaju sumnjivim inspektorima samo u zemljama kao što je Iran, mogli bismo mirno da spavamo, znajuči da metode i zakoni „takvih zemalja“ moraju da se promene, dok smo „mi" bezgrešni, To je diskurs svih desničarskih partija sadašnjice. U stvarnosti, međutim, one vlasti širom sveta koje ne dovode u pitanje svoj legitimitet, vole da vas postave preda se, zahtevajoči da dokažete da ne lažete. O AUTORU AMIR REZA KUHESTANI roden je 8. juna 1978. u iranskem gradu Širazu. Kao šesnaestogodišnjak, počeo je da objavljuje kratke priče u lokalnim novinama. Kao zaljubljenik u film, pohadao je kurseve režije i kamere, a 1995. snimio dva filma koja su, međutim, ostala nedovršena. Neko vreme je sticao iskustvo kao izvodač da bi se, potom, posvetio pisanju drama, od kojih su mnoge doživele uspeh u Evropi. Festival Actoral u Marseju (Francuska),

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION Contrary to what we might imagine, the interrogation isn't carried out by some hairy-faced fundamentalist, but by a student who had been given the dorm key simply because she’s a bit older. She isn't interrogating the others out of any extremist religious or political convictions, but simply because she’s managed to keep her copybook clean up till then and doesn’t want any trouble. If people only had to justify themselves to suspicious inspectors in countries like Iran, we could sleep safe in the knowledge that the methods and laws of 'countries like that’ have to be changed, but that ‘we’ are irreproachable. It’s the discourse of all the right-wing parties these days. But in reality, the authorities ail over the world who don’t question their legitimacy like to sit in front of you and ask you to prove you’re not lying. THE AUTHOR AMIR REZA KOOHESTANI was born in June Bth,8 th , 1978 in Shiraz, Iran. He was 16 when he began publishing short stories in local newspapers. Attracted to cinema, he took courses in directing and cinematography in 1995 and created two unfinished films. After a brief experience as a performer, he devoted his time to writing plays, many of them successfully welcomed in Europe. In 2013, Festival Actoral in Marseille (France) commissioned Koohestani to write and stage a new play, Timeloss (based on his previous play Dance on Glasses ), successfully staged across Europe, New York and Los Angeles. From October 2014 to March 2015, Amir Reza Koohestani was on a residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, in Stuttgart, where he wrote his last play Hearing, premiered at the City Hall of Tehran on the 15 th July 2015 and is currently touring Europe. He has been also commissioned to write and direct a play for the Theater Oberhausen, in Germany, premiered on the 30 th October 2015. In September 2016, he premiered his adaptation of the French novel by Kamel Daoud - The Meursault Investigation, at the Münchner Kammerspiele. In April 2017, he directed an opera - TannhaOser - at the Staatstheater Darmstadt in Germany. His upcoming projects are an adaptation of The Cherry Orchard in Freiburg (October 2017), another adaptation of the play L'attentat by Yasmina Khadra, at the Münchner Kammerspiele, and a new original production to be created in May 2018. FROM THE REVIEWS "To hear the voices of women under veils - this Kafkaesque enigma introduces three women into a relentless twirl which, through wounds and obsessive repentance twelve