TEHRAN -- An adaptation of French essayist Roland Barthes’ “A Lover’s Discourse” (1977, “Fragments d’un discours amoureux”) will go on stage at the House for Dialogue Between City and Architecture on Friday.

A cast of four actors will perform the play titled “Turn to See Me”, which will be co-directed by Shirin Farshbaf, Nasim Riazi and Saeid Behnam. It will run for 30 nights.

Banipal Shomon, Maral Ebadi, Nilufar Nedai and Mohsen Rastegar are the members of the cast, and parts of the play will be narrated by veteran actor Reza Kianian.   

An account of a painful love affair, “A Lover’s Discourse” was so popular in France that it quickly sold more than 60,000 copies.

Barthes was also a social and literary critic whose writings on semiotics, the formal study of symbols and signs pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, helped establish structuralism and the New Criticism as leading intellectual movements.

Photo: “Turn to See Me” directors Shirin Farshbaf (L), Nasim Riazi (C) and Saeid Behnam are seen in an undated photo.

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