In the first two decades of the 20th century the leading political class in Iran struggled over the future orientation of their country: Was there to be an absolute or a constitutional monarchy or even a parliamentary republic? With the transfer of power from the exhausted Qajar monarchy to the Pahlavi dynasty in 1926, the way seemed open for reorganizing Iran as a modern nation state. The new Shah Reza Pahlavi initiated a comprehensive modernization programme in the country, which was to be based on a new Iranian national identity. In this nation-building process, theatre was assigned a special function. From the 1920s theatres were opened in Tehran that not least of all were to communicate the Shah’s political programme to the people. Iranologist Anna Heller explores the onetime entertainment district around Lalezar Street on the lookout for remnants of the theatres of an emerging nation.
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