Ma maison est noire

Theatre - Duration 1h45 - From age 14

The portrait of a great Iranian lady of the previous century by a compatriot of the present day.

A fiery, free-spirited avant-gardist who was an itching powder in the patriarchal society of Tehran in the 50s and 60s, Forough Farrokhzad was the greatest Persian poetess of her time before she died in a jeep accident (or so the official version goes) in 1967, aged 32.


Mina Kavani has created this show as a tribute to this woman, whose books were all removed from Iranian shelves after the Islamic revolution and are still impossible to find there today. Based on a montage of her stories, poems, diaries and letters, and set to music that celebrates the fusion of East and West by the great Erik Truffaz, the actress reveals all the darkness and despair, but also all the ardour and sensuality, of her great spiritual sister - while a mix of live footage (for one) and archive footage (for the other) reveals their striking twinship. That's the conclusion of this moving attempt at resurrection: Forough and Mina, same battle...

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