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Son of a mother, mother of a son
(Sohn einer Mutter. Mutter eines Sohns)
Writer , director & stage designer
2024- Residenztheater-Munich, Germany
A person who sacrifices for others gives themself the right to censor someone else!
Perhaps this sentence is filled with exaggeration and may be distant from our prevailing beliefs. But it is a part of the ultimate romantic relationship between a son and a mother, where love produces anger instead of peace, and turns into a wound instead of a remedy. Such dynamics unfold within a society that, at times, upholds rigid and harshly judgmental standards. “Son of a mother, mother of a son” is an attempt to narrate complex and deep human emotions against the backdrop of the contemporary history of a nation.
This play was produced by Residenztheater and was performed in German. The premiere of this play was on June 8, 2024, in the Marstall Hall at the Residenztheater complex, and it was included in the company’s 2024 performance schedule.
The play was well received by the audience and received positive feedback from critics as well. The text of this play was written by Pooyan Bagherzadeh in 2023 and directed by him in 2024.
Critic by Sabine Leucht:
“Son of that Mother, Mother of that Son” was directed by Bagherzadeh himself. Nothing in it is superfluous, and everything is rhythm – on stage… There is the mother who says, “I am only well when you are well” and imagines a future as the world’s best grandmother. And there is the son who goes to Germany because he does not want to destroy her dream. For Nima is gay, does not want to burden his mother with this truth, and thus destroys much more, namely his romantic relationship.
At the edge of this complex force field of self-denial and deep-rooted guilt feelings, the political conditions in Iran also appear like gently glowing orientation markers: A past imprisonment of Nima, who, as a journalist, always must weigh which truth the political reality can currently bear, or his parents’ activities during the revolution. And yet, the core conflict feels painfully close and familiar, unfortunately including the image of women and mothers based on self-sacrifice.
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