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And of Clay We Are Created

Zahra Sabri’s Count to One and the Material Ephemerality of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

Ali-Reza Mirsajadi
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Abstract

Iranian theatre director Zahra Sabri’s dramaturgy layers performers and puppets, puppets and puppeteers, collapsing distinctions between the inanimate and the animate in ways that allow spectators more freedom to interpret her work. Her 2012 Count to One enacts the creation, animation, and destruction of clay puppets while telling a story of three soldiers who refuse to follow orders to bomb a foreign city.

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Worlds of Directing Series
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TDR , Volume 66 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 38 - 51
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© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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