Iran Arrests Theater Artists Over Shakespeare Production
Authorities in Iran have detained two artists in connection with a production of Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shahram Karami, an Iranian cultural official, told the state news agency IRNA on September 10 that the judiciary had ordered the director of the play, Maryam Kazemi, and the manager of the theater staging it, Saeed Assadi, to be taken into custody. Karami linked the detention of the two on the evening of September 9 to a trailer for the show. Kazemi, the director, had previously described the production of ...
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