Pur - Thingless

A play without props by Mahdi Farshidi Sepehr

This is the story of Schuang Hu Yang. He is the son of a shepherd and lives in Tibet in the year 1205. To belong to the world of adults, he must meditate for forty days in a solitary temple. On his way home, he gets lost and comes across a border he cannot cross. He makes a shocking discovery.

It is also the story of Essi, a teenager somewhere in Tehran, Ludwigshafen, or another city. He loves computer games, especially playing adventure games. Only, he can't cope with the latest game...

Pur is a play without props, an adventure in virtual worlds, a story about freedom and self-determination, a magnificent piece of acting art for which Mahdi Farshidi Sepehr was awarded as the best actor at the Children and Youth Theater Festival in Hamedan, Iran in 2013.

An unadorned solo theater piece, entirely carried by the actor's skill and expressiveness, about freedom, self-determination, responsibility, and video games.

A co-production with Mahdi Farshidi Sepehr, Tehran
Awarded as Best Play: 19th International Theater Festival for Children and Young Adults 2012, Hamedan/Iran."

from 9 - 12 years
40 minutes, without break
Copyrights Mahdi Farshidi Sepehr

Production 2013

With: Mahdi Farshidi Sepehr
And the voices of: Jette Damminger, Peer Damminger und Bärbel Maier
Directing and Text: Mahdi Farshidi Sepehr
German Text: Bärbel Maier

From nothing but movement, pantomime, gestures, dance, he shapes the two contrasting characters without any stage props (...) This is excellently done and very easy to understand.
Die Rheinpfalz

Exceptional and touching was the nearly 50-minute solo piece that Mahdi Farshidi Sepher brought to the stage. It oscillated between two levels of time and reality, dealing with freedom and self-determination.
Die Rheinpfalz Frankenthal