TEHRAN (Honaronline) – “I wanted to be a horse” Written by Mohammad Charmshir the work of Abbas Ghaffari and produced by Maryam Naraghi, has been on stage at Noflushato Mansion since January 10 and Maryam Moeini, Mojdeh Hodaei, Darya Yaseri, and Reyhaneh Hangji are the cast.
Abbas Ghaffari in an interview with HonarOnline talked about the charms of choosing the play “I wanted to be a horse” and its performance. He said: Mohammad Charmshir wrote this play in 2004 based on the book “Memoirs of a Young Girl”. This book is memoirs and notes from Ann Frank. She was a woman killed by the Germans in World War II.
Abbas Ghaffari said:”I Want to Be a Horse” is not a comedy, musical and happy theater, and its words are serious and incidentally bitter.
“This is the story of four Jewish women who have been imprisoned underground for four years for fear of being killed by German soldiers. Some of them have become disbelievers because of what has happened to them, and they are looking for their lost faith in the conversations and challenges between them, and they want to find it again, he added.”
Ghaffari, while stating that the play “I wanted to be a horse” was staged in the guest section of the Women’s Theater Festival in 2004, said “Since then, I have been interested in bringing this play to the stage one day.
The events between these four women in the basement where they are imprisoned are very relevant to us today. In the nearly two years that we have been dealing with corona disease, many definitions such as faith, love, etc. have changed in human societies. I believe that the play “I Wanted to Be a Horse” is very close to the life of human societies. I have always been interested in the social approach in the works I have staged so far, and this work is not far from my other works.”
“Beautiful play and very good and different roles of the actors are the features of this play. The show’s message is to look once again at our living conditions and what we have simply lost, and the fact that war changes us, our outlook and our lives”, he added.