First look production images are released of the Gate Theatre’s new production of Pulitzer Prize Winner Sanaz Toossii’s WISH YOU WERE HERE, which opens to press tonight @26 Crowndale Road.
Five friends, three weddings and unabashed humour. Amongst conversations on unibrows, depilation, forbidden music and shared wax strips, five Iranian women exchange dreams whilst planning their future lives. Playful, intimate and surprisingly naughty, these girlfriends are completely unfiltered behind closed doors.
Set against simmering political tensions of Iran over 14 years, Sanaz Toossi’s dazzling play piquantly evokes a living room alive with humour, sexual precocity and real female friendship as it charts a decade of sisterhood and platonic love with raw honesty and outrageous humour.
Sepy Baghaei will direct Afsaneh Dehrouveh (Yellow/BBC’s Granite Harbour) Maryam Grace (Macbeth/The Postcard Killings), Juliette Motamed (C4’s We are Lady Parts/Magic Mike’s Last Dance), Isabella Nefar (My English Persian Kitchen/Small City) and Emily Renee (Amazon Prime’s The Power/Honesty) in this funny and astute drama which vividly explores female friendships and how life can impact them, as they live their lives against a backdrop of marriages and revolution.
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