Sohrab and Rustum
November 1,
2003
Saturday, Nov. 1, 8:00 p.m.
$5 for students; $10.00 for Stony Brook faculty and staff, and
senior citizens; $15.00 general admission. Tickets
online ...
Playing
a dozen different characters, Zaraawar Mistry performs a brilliant
solo work intertwining the ancient Persian story of father and son
Rustum
and Sohrab, with a contemporary tragicomic tale of a Zoroastrian family
from Mumbai. The haunting Persian music for the play is performed live
by Tim
O'Keefe and Maryam Yusefzadeh. "A terrific night of storytelling" —City
Pages.
All performances are preceded by a brief introduction to Zoroastrianism. Produced by Center for Independent Artists.
Zoroastrians are followers of the prophet Zarathushtra (Greek: Zoroaster), whose religion flourished during the great Iranian empires. With the spread of Islam in the 8th century, a small band of Zoroastrian refugees fled to India, where they remained. Today, there are about 150,000 Zoroastrians in the world.
