Virgule Film & Performing Arts Company presents Theatre Laundering @ The Byre Theatre

Three theatrical portraits of Newsha Tavakolian, Setareh Nafisi, and Marene van Holk, Iranian-Dutch photographer, composer, and theatre maker, and the impossible choices they faced as artists, migrants, and human beings. Choices that are not neat, not pure, and precious. These dilemmas form the starting point of the interactive performance Theatre Laundering, led by director Arvand Dashtaray.

After 23 years of theatre-making and cultural activism in Iran, Dashtaray has arrived in the Netherlands. In Iran, theatre was a busy, urgent space, a space that demanded interpretation, collaboration, and shared risk from its audience. Here, he encounters a different landscape and wonders whether theatre can have a societal impact or provoke political resistance.