Full casting has been announced for the Gate theatre’s UK premiere of Sanaz Toossi’s Wish You Were Here, which opens at Theatro Technis @ 26 Crowndale on Thursday 24 October to Saturday 23 November with press night on Tuesday 29 October.
Sepy Baghaei will direct a stellar cast featuring Afsaneh Dehrouyeh (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 Renée (Amazon Prime’s The Power/Honesty) in Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Toossi’s 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.
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.
