Reza Abdoh

Reza Abdoh

Charlie Fox, Dominic Johnson • Hatje Cantz

ISBN-10: 3775745521 · ISBN-13: 978‑3775745529

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Over a brief, twelve-year career, the Iranian director and playwright Reza Abdoh broke all of the conventions of American th eater, pushing actors and audience s past their limits to create hallucinatory , at times nightmarish , dreamscapes shot through with humor , song, and an unlikely spirituality . His productions addressed the bitter political realities of his time— the systemic devaluation of Black life , governmental indifference to the AID S crisis , sexual repression, genocide in Europe and war in the Middle East— with harrowing eloquence. Just before his death he ordered that his plays should never be performed again . Profusely illustra t ed , the catalogue contains new essays on the influence and reception of Abdoh ’s work s in theater, film, and video, published and unpublished interviews with the director, and conversations with his friends and colleagues, as well as scripts of his plays and contemporary reviews . The Iranian director REZA ABDOH (1963–1995) was known for his wildly ambitious, experimental, and often confrontational, theatrical productions. When he died of AIDS at the age of just thirty-two, he was already regarded as a crucial figure on the American avant-garde scene.

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