Mysterious Gift
City: Tehran
Company: Safir
Director: Meysam Yousefi
Playwright: Atsa Shamloo
Puppet designers: Ali Pakdast, Maryam Eghbali
Puppet makers: Ali Pakdast, Maryam Eghbali, Mehrnoush Sadeghiyan, Maryam Rahmani, Hoda Bakhshude, Mina Panahnejat, Mahgol Saberi
Set designer: Sina Yeylaghebygi
Set maker: Mehrdad Bagheri, Alireza Miranjam, Saba Musavi, Leila Taheri, Yasaman Hariri
Costume Designer: Maryam Eghbali
Lighting Designer: Mohammadreza Shamlufar
Puppeteers and Actors: Maryam Ashuri, Ali Baruti, Atefe Bahrololum Tabatabaei, Maryam Khaksar Tehrani, Hediyeh Hajtaheri, Honey Hosseini
Assistant director: Masoumeh Arvaz
Composer: Ramin Cohen
Poster Designer: Ehsan Neghabat
Photographer: Ehsan Neghabat
2nd assistant director: Ali Rezaei
Stage assistant: Sara Kharazmi
Tailor: Sepideh Gholizadeh
Set Assistants: Alireza Miranjam, Saba Musavi
Music Players: Faraz Khonafari,Ramin Cohen, Adeleh Karim Zadeh, Hatef Sadeghi Tehrani, Amin Parvin
Vocal:Farnaz Saheri
Poet: Azadeh Farhangian
Public relations: Roshanak Karimi, Rozhin Sattary
Technique: Mix
Audience: Children and Young Adults
Duration: 50 min
Plot Summary: The prince in her birthday, which coincides with the Yalda Night, orders Primrose flowers for her dinner table. The Herald announces there will be a basket full of gold for anybody who brings Primrose to the court. Forced by her stepmother and sister Bahar is going into the forest. They tell her not to return home until she finds primroses, It’s Winter and there is a storm while Bahar is going towards the forest…
Director’s note: The puppet is a lifeless body made by human to move in front of the spectator. Anybody who plays with the puppet brings life to the puppet and himself. Hope to be the creator of our puppet’s life in the blue sky of our puppet.
