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Parvaneh Soltani (born October 12, 1961, in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, and actress who lives in London.
Parvaneh's father was an activist, and her mother was a poet and homemaker. She grew up in a poetry and political household that adored the leftwing of Iran and its ideologies and poetry. Through her father's acceptance of left-wing ideologies came an acceptance of liberal feminism. Her father encouraged his daughters to “be a free woman”. She studied BA in theatre at Dramatic University in Tehran. Life and work in the West Parvaneh left Iran in 1985 because of the political situation. It was about this time that the Iranian Revolution occurred. As an effect of the political restructuring after the revolution, she came to London and began studying Media. Eventually, she attended the London College of Printing to study MA in Film. In London, she contributed to radio and magazines in Europe to find her voice. In 1990 she began to work with Iraj Janati Attaie, a playwright and a theatre director, in an epic story called another Roastam, another Sfandiyar with Behrooz Vosooghi, the famous Iranian Co-Star. They have performed that play in numerous countries, including England, most European Cities, Canada, and the United States. In 2000, she formed the Nina Theatre Company in London. Since then, she has written, directed, and performed many successful plays. Those plays have been performed in London, Canada, and toured several European cities. Also, in 2000 she joined the Artists in Exile company in London. [1] [2]
The first mature play she adapted, performed, and directed herself was A Woman Alone, She then wrote a successful play based on many true stories in political prisoners in Iran after the revolution. Her work refers to Islamic society's social, cultural, and religious codes and the complexity of certain oppositions, such as man and woman. The plight of Iranian women is the subject she usually focuses on. She has also made more narrative one-woman shows in the theatre, such as her work, Forugh Farokhzad in the garden of memories. The work of Parvaneh addresses the social, political, and psychological dimensions of women's experience in contemporary societies. Although Parvaneh actively resists stereotypical representations of Islam, her artistic objectives are not explicitly polemical. Rather, her work recognizes the complex intellectual and religious forces shaping the identity of Muslim women throughout the world. She also directed and acted in short films like Stoning, A passion for life, and Land legs... While she lives in London, she addresses a global audience with her work, like Fear of Separation was symbolic of the grief, anxiety, and pain of those women who are scared of the separation. As time progressed and the Islamic regime of Iran became more intrusive and oppressive, her work became boldly political and subversively critical against it; for example, Once upon a time in my country, Iran, and Mr, Bin Laden Journeys and Women. She seeks to, according to an article in New Left Review and Iran Bulitan Journal, women are a lost link in Iranian cinema. Her current theatre work continues to express the philosophical and complex levels of intellectual abstraction. Parvaneh was profiled her website Art and Heart expression in March 2005. In July 2009, she created her dance theatre Nada's Story to protest the 2009 Iranian presidential election.
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