Tehran – Tehran’s Iranian Art Boutique will hose Jason Miller’s “Ghost of Barrymore” with a hose from June 6th to 21st.
Translated and directed by Hamed Sehhat, this is a 50-minute solo performance with Mohammad Tayeb Taher as the only performer on stage.
“The Ghost of Barrymore” opens up the life of legendary actor John Barrymore in a unique and theatrical way.
John Barrymore, or Jack Barrymore, or Jake Barrymore, are presented as ghosts haunting theatres that are currently unknown. God declared Barrymore the existence of this purgatory as an ascetic to abandon the theatre and wast his talent in pursuit of fame, greed and dissipation.
Barrymore challenges these claims of God as he examines the spectrum of his life in a painfully humorous way. He records his superiority to the throne as the best classical actor of his generation. His arrival at the pinnacle of film stardom. His intimate and caring relationship with his sister Ethel and his brother Lionel. And then the explosive removal of his four marriages. The play has wit, fear, suffering, and hope. Watching the mythical character explore the truth and deception of his extraordinary life.
Jason Miller (1939-2001) was an American playwright and actor. He won the Best Play in the 1973 drama and the Tony Award for Pulitzer Prize for Best Play in the Tony Awards, “That Championship Season,” and was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as Father Damien Karras in the 1973 horror film “The Exorcist.” He later became artistic director of the Scranton Public Theatre in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and “that Championship Season” was set.
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