Ibsen banned in Iran for hedonism
Iranian authorities have banned a play by Henrik Ibsen's play "Hedda Gabler", deeming it too vulgar and hedonistic, informs Reuters referring to Iranian news agency Fars. Classic play the world repertoire, staged in a theater of Tehran, displeased the chief prosecutor of the capital Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi.
The main characters play the Norwegian playwright - a young woman Hedda Gabler, her husband, a scientist, and another man, a writer. The image of the protagonist of this play is considered one of the most complex and interesting theater in the world, often being compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Dolatabadi said that the play was a problem "as a conceptual point of view and in terms of how it was staged." According to him, the cultural life of Tehran needs a "recovery". To this end, the Prosecutor's Office established a special committee.
According to the agency, the ban reflects the general situation inconsistent with the arts in Iran, where there are very strictly enforced sharia law. In recent months, some senior Iranian officials were not only against the severe restrictions in the arts, but in general against the policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The fight against Western cultural influence in Iran is not only in theater but also in literature and music. In the spring of 2009 in Shiraz, 100 visitors to a rock concert, were arrested on charges of Satanism, and recently the authorities imposed a ban on publishing books of famous Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho.
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