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Whale Riding Weather
A love story in which a faded old queen finds his life slipping away from him along with his young lover, who meets a new, younger man.
The Death of the King
A retelling of Persian history. At the end of the Sassanian Empire, during the onslaught of Muslim invasions into Persia, the last king of Persia, Yazdgird III, finds death in an impoverished flourmill. Discovered red-handed by the king's army, the helpless miller, his wife, and his daughter must reenact their experience with the king to prove their innocence—or else face a horrible death.
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First produced
1979, City Theater, Tehran
Publication year
2008
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Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN
9780887548192
Published in Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran
Published in Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran
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