TEHRAN -- Iranian stage director Behruz Gharibpur has been invited to discuss his play “Uncle’s Tom Cabin” with the students of the University of Georgia.

Gharibpur dramatized and staged the adaptation of the American writer and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery themed novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in Iran.
University of Georgia student, Joshua Adam Jeffries, whose doctoral thesis is on the theme of the impact of Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” on United States citizens, invited Gharibpur to attend an online conference.
He asked Gharibpur to explain his own interpretation of the novel for students of the Department of Theater and Film Studies of the University of Georgia. Professor of Dramatic Arts Freda Scott Giles of the university will also attend the event.
Jeffries came across the news that Behruz Gharibpur would be staging an adaptation of the novel in Iran while surfing the Internet.
Gharibpur told ISNA that Jeffries assumed that the play is a reaction against the U.S. government’s behavior towards racial minorities in housing and also to the slowness in delivering relief after the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, but he was surprised after watching the DVD. After some online interviews he changed his mind and asked Gharibpur to translate the play into English.
Gharibpur noted that a large part of Jeffries’ dissertation is allocated to Gharibpur’s interpretation from the perspective of an Iranian director from this novel.
The play was staged at the Avini Auditorium of the Bahman Cultural Center, the 26th International Fajr Festival and the Tehran City Theater.