Death of Yazdgerd

Death of Yazdgerd
Written by	Bahram Beyzai
Characters	Miller Miller's wife Priest General
Date premiered	10 September 1979
Place premiered	City Theater of Tehran Tehran, Iran
Original language	Persian
Setting	Muslim conquest of Persia

Death of Yazdgerd (or alternatively translated as Death of the King) is a Persian play about the death of Yazdegerd III by Bahram Beyzai, often considered his magnum opus, which he adapted into a film of the same name.

Text

In English

The play was translated into English by Manuchehr Anvar and published in Tehran.^[1] Another English translation is named Death of the King, published in Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran in Canada.^[2]

Notable productions

Premiere

Beyzai produced this play for the first time in the City Theater of Tehran from 10 September 1979 to 29 October. Susan Taslimi and Mehdi Hashemi played the leading roles.

Film adaptation

English premiere

Onelight Theatre produced this play in Canada in 2005.

Bengali premiere

Sudipto Chatterjee translated and produced this play in India in 2014.^[3]

References

Works by Bahram Beyzai

Films

Feature	Downpour (1971) The Stranger and Fog (1974) The Crow (1977) Ballad of Tara (1979) Death of Yazdgerd (1981) Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986) Perhaps Some Other Time (1988) Travellers (1992) Killing Mad Dogs (2001) When We Are All Asleep (2009)
Short	Uncle Mustache The Journey (1970 film) Speaking with the Wind
Segment	The Eloquent Carpet, being an episode in Persian Carpet (2006)

Plays

The Marionettes (1963)
Evening in a Strange Land (1963)
The Story of the Hidden Moon (1963)
Sindbad's Eighth Voyage (1964)
Four Boxes (1967)
Death of Yazdgerd (1979)
Memoirs of the Actor in a Supporting Role (1981)
Kalat Claimed (1982)
Ardaviraf's Report (1999)

Productions of Other Playwrights’ Plays	The Lady Aoi (1998)

Film Scripts

(In addition to all of the films he has made, many more unproduced, such as the popular A New Prologue to the Shahnameh, some of which have been adapted by other filmmakers.)

Adaptations

The Fateful Day (1995)

Research

A Study on Iranian Theatre (1965)
Where Is Hezar Afsan? (2012)

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