TEHRAN – Iranian troupe Dimak directed by Albert Beigjanian will stage the puppet play “The Suitcase and the Cute Dog” based on Irish playwright Brian Patrick Friel’s “The Yalta Game” in Tehran.

Friel wrote the play based on Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Lady with the Little Dog”, which the Russian playwright composed in 1899 in Yalta, a resort city on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula.

The play will go on stage at the 16th Mobarak International Puppet Theater Festival running from August 22 to 28, the director told the Persian service of ISNA on Saturday.

“I mostly work on puppet plays outside Iran. I have performed many works in international festivals, but this is the first time I will stage a puppet play in Iran,” said director Beigjanian who is of Armenian origin.

“Puppet plays have always been interesting for me because they require artistic creativity, while my inner child is still a child and doesn’t want to grow up,” he added.
 
Puppeteers Mohammadreza Maleki, Fahimeh Abedini and Aida Kolahi are collaborating in this project.

Beigjanian has previously worked as a producer with Levon Haftvan who staged “The Yalta Game” at Tehran’s Konesh-e Moaser Hall in April.

The play tells the story of an accountant who vacations alone, leaving his wife and family behind in Moscow.

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