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Photo by Kingorama
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Photo by Richard Termine
The Feb. 2 presentation of Hamid Rahmanian’s “Song of the North” at the University of Richmond’s Alice Jepson Theatre will demonstrate the theater mantra “the show must go on.”
Iranian-American Rahmanian worked for years to stage a 10th-century Persian poem as a cinematic shadow play with actors, puppets, animation and original music. Following performances in San Francisco in late October, a rental trailer containing the show’s electronic equipment, costumes, masks and puppets was stolen. The trailer was found, but the gear was gone, and the one-of-a-kind show pieces were trashed. Online fundraising began immediately, as did repairs.
“It is a very labor-intensive process,” Rahmanian says, “but the good news is we are on the path to finish it, hopefully, by the first week of January.”
Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. show start at $10.
