Iranian Nights

Iranian Nights

Release Date: 1989-01-01

Overview: A Channel Four special presentation of the Royal Court Theatre 1989 production, London. with Paul Bhattacharjee, Nabil Shaban and Fiona Victory. "Iranian Nights" was a play written and produced as a direct response by writers and artists to the notorious Feb 14 1989 Fatwa (a sentence of death) from Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, placed on Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses", regarded by fundamentalist Muslims as blasphemous.

Rating: 6 / 10

Cast

Paul Bhattacharjee

Paul Bhattacharjee

as Omar Khayyam

Nabil Shaban

Nabil Shaban

as Caliph

Fiona Victory

Fiona Victory

as Scheherazade

Crew

  • Penny Cherns - Director

  • Howard Brenton - Writer

  • Tariq Ali - Writer

  • Colin Pigott - Set Designer

  • Tariq Ali - Producer

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