Stage So Near So Far – Play reading and discussion around Pages Magazine special issue nr. 11

In this context, the text Grammar of Acts, read by its author Azade Shahmiri at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Belgium.

The Grammar of Acts; is a text in progress intended for a durational performance. It is borrowed from scene instructions and descriptions of movements for female roles in various Iranian plays from the past hundred years. The text intertwines theatre and autobiography through a series of distilled body gestures that navigate violence in language, on stage, and in social space.