Playwright Mehdi Moradpour
Directed by Sami Ismat
Featuring Maryam Abdi, Vic Kuligoski, Kaelan Strouse, and Anne Thompson
German Iranian playwright Mehdi Moradpour’s Pure Land, nominated for the Munich Prize for German Drama, traces the story of Tara, a pregnant Middle Eastern woman seeking political asylum amidst crippling bureaucracy and crumbling relationships. Neil Blackadder’s translation captures the poetry that won Moradpour the prestigious exil-DramatikerInnenpreis, a German theatre award for outstanding playwrights-in-exile.
Pure Land pits a torturous past against an uncertain future with sobering effect.
Presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Washington.
