Researching Iranian theatre and cultural productions such as music and dance is a new field that scientists have only discovered in the last ten to 20 years. Often it was local historians who took an interest in their community’s theatre or the history of a certain theatre group who prompted such research work. Today, scientists face a wide variety of challenges: the limited access to source material on the one hand and the expectations that people have of such research work on the other. There still seems to be a persistent belief that Iranian theatre of the 1920s and 1930s was boring, given the prevailing censorship of the time. Prof. Christoph Werner sees a major task of the research project as casting a new perspective on the developments: What connection, if any, is there between theatre and other cultural forms? Is it at all possible to distinguish between early 20th-century theatre, music, cinema and dance? What connections are there between Iranian nationalism and theatre – and how did the newly forming Iranian state work with the theatre? Prof. Christoph Werner provides answers to these questions in our general interview.
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