{"id":16952,"date":"2012-02-18T21:47:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T01:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shahrefarang.com\/the-merchant-of-venice-in-tehran-1928\/"},"modified":"2012-02-18T21:47:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T01:47:26","slug":"the-merchant-of-venice-in-tehran-1928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.shahrefarang.com\/en\/the-merchant-of-venice-in-tehran-1928\/","title":{"rendered":"The Merchant of Venice in Tehran (1928)"},"content":{"rendered":"

These photographs show one of the earliest performances of a Western-style play in Iran. The play was Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice<\/a> performed in Zoroastrians Club in Tehran , April 19, 1928. Majid Rezvani was the director. Arbab Aflatoon, a Zoroastrian, was the Merchant of Venice, and Kazem Bakhtiari acted as a female character. In those days the Iranian women still could not act in the plays yet.
\n* Photographer: Jahangir Mossavar Rahmani- From the personal collection of Yadollah Rezvani<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

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These photographs show one of the earliest performances of a Western-style play in Iran. The play was Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice<\/a> performed in Zoroastrians Club in Tehran , April 19, 1928. Majid Rezvani was the director. Arbab Aflatoon, a Zoroastrian, was the Merchant of Venice, and Kazem Bakhtiari acted as a female character. In those days the Iranian women still could not act in the plays yet.
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