آرش کمانگیر

Arash the Archer is a play written and directed by Sadegh Hatefi, based on Siavash Kasraei's narrative poem «Arash-e Kamangir». In Kasraei's poem an old storyteller recounts, on a winter night, the tale of Arash: at the end of the war between Iran and Turan, the border is to be fixed by the flight of an arrow shot by an Iranian; Arash, an archer from among the people, puts his whole life into the arrow from the summit of Damavand, the arrow flies to the far distance and widens Iran's border, and he dies. The Owrang Theater Group staged it in two versions in Sacramento between 2015 and 2018: Arash 1, a theatrical staging of the text, and Arash 2, a new take by the same writer-director, again based on Kasraei's poem, combining film, music, dance and theatre, with an entirely different cast.