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  • The blurred line between film and theatre: an experience of Simon Ston’s “Medea” at the time of pandemic

    Written by Mahsa Foroughi | 1st May 2021 | Adaptation, Australia, Review, Theatre and Film photo credit: Dim balsem Simon Stone made a contemporary version of Medea by radically adapting Euripides’s Greek tragedy about the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, who is abandoned by her husband and murders her own children out of revenge. Lived streamed at Adelaide Fringe Festival from the International Theatre…

  • Cry (Translated by OpenAI)

    Here is your poem translated into English, preserving your word choices: In the dance of my trembling hands,Your body’s movement fades,Black and white settling on the snow.Gray in the moments without you,With you, and in the isolation of an unfulfilled laughter.I am a woman with masculine hands.My chest is womanly and no longerA shield for…

  • Cry (Farsi, Handwritten)

  • In the style of a diary

    June 19, 2024, Berlin It wasn’t that the world was ending or beginning. I didn’t feel the slightest anxiety or sadness. No, it was boredom all over again. We didn’t take the train to hell, but hell has a way of leading us to boredom. It was late afternoon when, after twenty-something years, I sat…

  • Portrait of the Artist as a Victim

    Portrait of the Artist as a Victim