By TE/HGH, *Konya to host Iran play on Mowlavi* Press TV - Tehran, IranTuesday, August 17, 2010
Iranian theater director Pari Saberi has been invited to stage her Flying Shams in Konya, where the Sufi Persian poet, Mowlavi has been laid to rest.
The play will be performed on the birth anniversary of the world-renowned poet, Saberi told Mehr News Agency.
The award-winning director has also been invited by the cultural office of Iran's East Azarbaijan Province to stage The Flying Shams in the cities of Tabriz and Khoy.
The Flying Shams, which has been staged in many countries, recounts the story of Mowlavi and his spiritual guide Shams Tabrizi.
Saberi was born in 1932 and studied at Vaugirard Cinematography College in France. She has staged many plays based on classical Persian literary works.
Bijan and Manijeh, Rustam and Sohrab, and Mourning of Siavash are among Saberi's better-known works.
She has received UNESCO's 2003 Avicenna Award and the French Literature and Art Cavalier Badge from former French President Jacques Chirac.
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