12 Armenian plays to be released in Persian

PanARMENIAN.Net - Behzad Sedeghi, an official of Iranian Theatre Forum, announced that 12 Armenian plays will be released in Persian while the translation of Iranian works is on the agenda as well, the Iran Book News Agency reported.

According to the public relations department of the Iranian Theatre Forum, the spokesman and the deputy of the board of directors of the Forum’s playwrights’ center said: “Supported by the director of the Dramatic Arts Center of Iran, Qader Ashena, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will soon be signed between the Dramatic Arts Center and the Forum’s playwrights’ center.”

Following the activities of the international section and a MoU which was signed with the Writers' Union of Armenia, Forum’s playwrights’ center has decided to release 12 Armenian plays, which will be translated by Andranik Khechoumian, he added.

Currently “Wall” by Alireza Naderi and “A romantic narrative of a death in Ordibehesht” by Mohammad Charmshir have been rendered into Armenian which are supposed to be staged in Armenia as well.