We live under perpetual war. Yet the media and other cultural institutions are silent. They thrive on violence and trivia. I travelled to ancient Greece for an alternative model. Rereading Euripides’ ...

Farzad Amini is the director of the troupe and a cast composed of Hadis Bahrami-Yarahmadi, Bahram Abassifar, Zahra Suri, Raha Soleimani, Rozita Sabzeqabaei, Ali Tarimi and Niayesh Nahavandi.

I first read Euripides’ Hippolytus in a college classroom where the professor spent the entire hour talking about Hippolytus himself, his chastity, his devotion to Artemis, his tragic pride… Phaedra ...