The Chairs

Director/Dramaturg : Sara Afshar
Sound Designer : Anna Elizabeth Durham
Lighting Designer : Jaklene Vukasinovic
Set Designer : Valentina Serebrennikova
CAST : Claudia Tory , Tim Wotherspoon , Zak Zavod

Special Thanks

I would like to thank Draf Draffin, Raimondo Cortese, and Chris Kohn for all their support and guidance throughout the last two years.
Thanks to Melbourne Theatre Company, Glenn Saunders, Hoda Afshar, Timothy Johannessen, Tabassom Ostad, Pooria Sadr and Benyamin Abedian.

2018

Year

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Our time is marked by mass migration and displacement. Homelessness is ever growing and shaping the destiny of our future. Histories are all disrupted and ‘discontinuity’ has come to be our shared human experience.
I am a migrant, and that’s why I chose this text. Disconnection from my roots has affected every aspect of my life and became the filter through which I’ve been looking at and making sense of the world. I’ve been living in a limbo where nothing functions the way it used to. It’s positioned me at the intersection of time and space—exactly where the characters of this play stand.
In making this theater, my intention has been to create a space in which truth and fiction and presence and absence of all the existing things in the world intermingle and the lines in-between them gradually disappear—a portrait of my inner self and the life I’ve been forced into living.

CREDITS

Sara Afshar

Sara Afshar

Director
Claudia Tory

Claudia Tory

Cast
Tim Wotherspoon

Tim Wotherspoon

Cast
Zak Zavod

Zak Zavod

Cast