The story unravels in a five-member family living in Panjshir, one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, and portrays a part of their life in a country at war, with focus on Afghan women’s oppression.

Halklarin Koprusu (Bridging Nations) aims to establish public solidarity and friendship between all people on the basis of equality, justice, and freedom.

According to Ahmadi, the play can present an analogy of the past and present and make the audience ponder on the adverse impact of war.

“The story conveys the hardships of Afghans caught in the conflict.”

“The whole effort is to take the audience into the Afghan conflict to understand their plight,” he noted.

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Written and directed by Ebrahim Poshtkouhi, the play is a loose adaptation of Purgatorio, the second part of Italian poet Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Azerbaijan State Musical Theater hosted ‘Divine Comedy, Inferno’ written and directed by theater director Ebrahim Poshtkouhi, and produced by Titowak Theater Group, as part of  ‘Iran Cultural Days’ program held in Baku in June 2018.

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The musical play is directed by Omid Reza Sepehri and produced by Maryam Naraghi.

Milad Mahdavi is the composer of the musical scores, while Istgah Orchestra will do the live performance of the scores under the baton of Iranian conductor Mehdi Norouzi.

The musical theater is an adaptation of a 2005 British-American stop-motion animated musical dark comedy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton, set in a fictional Victorian era village where the gray and monotonous land of the living meets the lively and colorful land of the dead.

The film was a critical and commercial success and was nominated for the 78th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature.

Omid Reza Sepehri, the director of the musical, has previously worked on successful plays such as ‘Sorry Dear Simon’, ‘Between Worlds’, and ‘The Story of an Apology (To Mr. Emaneul)’.

Istgah Orchestra has previously worked with renowned French pianist Richard Clayderman and acclaimed Iranian musician, composer and orchestra conductor Nasser Cheshmazar.

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