Visiting

Mohsen Yalfani is an Iranian theatre practitioner and playwright. In 1970, he wrote his most famous play, The Teachers, staged in Tehran. After ten nights, the performances were stopped by the Shah’s “SAVAK” and Yalfani was arrested and spent three months in prison. All Yalfani’s plays were then prohibited from being staged, and for many years, he was unsuccessful in publishing or staging any of his work. In 1974, while rehearsing Maxim Gorky’s Les Petites Bourgeois with the Iran Theatre Society, Yalfani and the entire cast and crew were arrested, and he was imprisoned for four years.

In 1978, Yalfani and a thousand other political prisoners were released. Since then, Yalfani spends most of his time as an active member of the Iranian Writers Association and has been twice (in 1979 and 1981) elected as a member of the board of directors. In 1981, the Iranian Writers Association was attacked by the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the association was shut down. In 1982, Yalfani crossed the escaped from the Iranian border in disguise, ultimately political asylum in France. He lives in Paris.

 The play of Visiting, a trilogy, was translated in French as the Trilogy of a revolution and performed in 2002.