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Masoud Shakarami
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Masoud Shakarami

Playwright, Director & Actor

Masoud Shakarami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1986. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in dramatic literature and has worked as a playwright, director and actor since 2006. Over that time he has been nominated for and won several awards as both playwright and actor.

His study has focused on mythology and mythological literature — the deep rivers of story that run beneath visible culture. This fascination with ancient form and contemporary reckoning informs all his theatrical work.

His play Have Colourful Dreams, Sir won first prize at the Fajr International Theatre Festival, one of the most prestigious theatre competitions in the world. Masoud's first English translation of the play was published by Prahran Publishing; a Spanish edition — Felices y Coloridos Sueños, Señor — followed. The play draws on the lyrical Ghazal tradition of 13th and 14th century Persian poets such as Saadi and Hafez, setting their meditation on love, separation, and surrender in a contemporary island fable.

Masoud has also worked as a screenwriter and director in short film, with his work appearing in international festivals through FilmFreeway.

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Published by Prahran Publishing

Have Colourful Dreams, Sir
Have Colourful Dreams, Sir

The revered Persian poets and philosophers of the 13th and 14th century — such as Saadi and Hafez — wrote lyrical poems called Ghazals that recounted tales of love in all its splendour and tragedy. Unlike western notions of love, Ghazals spoke of separation and pain that demanded complete surrender and total sacrifice.

A contemporary adaptation set on an island where a magical shaman, a hapless yet mysterious cripple, a beautiful maiden and a baker of enchanted cookies face a dilemma that demands a solution.

"To understand a Ghazal, you only have to drink wine and fall in love."

Available as an English paperback ($15.95), a limited A4 script edition ($21.95), and a Spanish translation, Felices y Coloridos Sueños, Señor ($15.95). Choose your edition at checkout.

The script edition is a final printing and will not be reprinted.

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