Arthur Miller Theatre
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
The Javaad Alipoor Company
$12-20 student tickets available
In the 1970s, Fereydoun Farrokhzad was a significant cultural icon, a sex symbol, and a chart-topping pop singer whose music and television programs were heard and viewed by millions of Iranians. A decade later, living in political exile in Germany, he still performed to sold-out audiences in Europe. That changed on August 7, 1992, when he was found brutally murdered in his apartment in Bonn. Neighbors said his dogs had been barking for two nights.
The murder, still unsolved, serves as the starting point for this new work by British-Iranian theater maker Javaad Alipoor, whose The Believers Are But Brothers was featured in the 2020 No Safety Net theater festival. Selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Theatre Shows of 2022, Things Hidden “gleefully mashes up genres, smashing together the quiet authority of the murder mystery podcast, the intimacy of autobiographical storytelling, and the visual spectacle of multimedia performance — while simultaneously deconstructing each of these forms.” (The Guardian)
Originally commissioned by HOME and Sydney’s National Theatre of Parramatta.
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Javaad Alippoor is an artist, writer, and the Artistic Director of The Javaad Alipoor Company.
He is a former ACE changemaker and was Resident Associate Director at Sheffield Theatres for their 2017/18 season, where he directed a new adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for The Crucible, and prior to this was Associate Director at Theatre in the Mill from 2015 to 2017.
Javaad was a founding member of the International Alliance in Support of Iranian Workers, the Syria Solidarity Campaign, and the Bradford-based pro-EU Migrant organization #BradfordSaysEveryoneStays.
Javaad’s writing about international politics, cultural policy, and art has been featured in The Guardian, The Independent, and The Stage. His plays are published by Oberon, and his poetry by Art in Unusual Places.