The Javaad Alipoor Company, Co-Produced with Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta
Manchester, UK

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Co-presented with Boom Arts

Access notes: This work references violence and murder, strobe lighting, and haze.

DESCRIPTION

Fereydoun Farrokhzad is invisible to everyone—apart from, mostly, Iranians, because nobody apart from them ever has to think about him.

In 1992, the Iranian pop sensation and refugee Fereydoun Farrokhzad, sometimes called Iran's Tom Jones, was found brutally murdered in his home in Germany only six months after playing to sold-out audiences at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The case was never solved.

This witty, fast-paced, and cutting-edge production cuts to the heart of the biggest true crime case that you have never heard of. An investigation into both an iconic murder and into the nature of the investigation itself.

Part freewheeling comic lecture, part podcast, and part play accompanied by live music, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World is a thrilling ride down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia and murder mystery podcasts, sorting through the tangle of information available online in a postcolonial world to reveal the limits of search engines in solving a decades-old cold case.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

The Javaad Alipoor Company (TJAC) is a contemporary theater company that makes work for a changing world and a global audience. Rooted in experimental and multiplatform practice, their work asks the most pressing questions we all face. With a commitment to internationalism, complexity, diversity, and fun, they make work for the twenty-first century, transforming what people think theater can be and what it can do.

Read more about the artist at the TBA Festival page on PICA.org.