TEHRAN -- Iranian director Homayun Ghanizadeh plans to stage a play he has written based on the Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus at the Sayeh Hall of Tehran’s City Theater starting on July 6.

Daedalus was a mythical Greek architect and sculptor, who was said to have built, among other things, the paradigmatic Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete.

Daedalus fell out of favor with Minos and was imprisoned; he fashioned wings of wax and feathers for himself and for his son Icarus and escaped to Sicily.

Icarus, however, flew too near the sun, and his wings melted; he fell into the sea and drowned. The island on which his body was washed ashore was later named Icaria.

Hamidreza Naimi and Javad Namaki will be performing in the play, which has been entitled “Icarus and Daedalus”.

Arash Sepahsalar and Saeid Movaffaqnejad are the theatrical production’s stage designers.