1980s Tehran-set drama where wartime bombings unleash an ancient malevolence.
Set in Tehran during the mid‑1980s Iran‑Iraq War, the play follows Shideh, left with her young daughter when her husband is drafted, as nightly missile strikes and rumours of a djinn converge in their apartment block.
Playwright Carmen Nasr adapts Babak Anvari’s BAFTA‑winning 2016 film, with Nadia Latif directing and Leila Farzad leading the cast. The production combines wartime social realism with Persian folklore to probe life under bombardment, the choice to flee or stay, and the boundary between reason and dread.
