{"id":12088,"date":"2024-12-22T23:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/book-garden-theater-restaging-adaptation-of-dostoyevskys-the-gentle-spirit\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T23:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T19:30:37","slug":"book-garden-theater-restaging-adaptation-of-dostoyevskys-the-gentle-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/book-garden-theater-restaging-adaptation-of-dostoyevskys-the-gentle-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Garden Theater restaging adaptation of Dostoyevsky\u2019s \u201cThe Gentle Spirit\u201d\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5298511.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN-A new round of performances of \u201cTonight \u2013 Borscht &amp; Blood,\u201d directed by the well-known Iranian actor, director, and writer Saber Abar is on stage at the Book Garden Theater in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Written by Mehdi Yazdani-Khorram, it is an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky\u2019s short story \u201cThe Gentle Spirit,\u201d ILNA reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Abar and Fatemeh Naghavi are the only actors in the 60-minute play, which was staged at Book Garden Theater during spring and summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Also known as \u201cA Gentle Creature\u201d and \u201cThe Meek One,\u201d the story is a compelling study of despair, based on a real-life incident. A pawnbroker mourns the loss of his wife, a quiet, gentle young girl. Why has she killed herself? Could he have prevented it? These are the questions the pawnbroker asks himself as he pieces together past events and minor incidents, changes of mood, and passing glances, in his search for an answer that will relieve his torment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Originally written in 1876, it is a first-person stream-of-consciousness narrative. It chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl who frequents his shop. The story was inspired by a news report that Dostoyevsky read in the paper about the suicide of a seamstress. Dostoyevsky referred to it as a \u201cmeek suicide\u201d that \u201ckeeps haunting you for a long time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821\u20131881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Dostoevsky&#8217;s literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">\u201cTonight \u2013 Borscht &amp; Blood\u201d will remain on stage until January 19, 2025, at the Book Garden Theater.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">SS\/<br \/> \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/507780\/Book-Garden-Theater-restaging-adaptation-of-Dostoyevsky-s-The\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN-A new round of performances of \u201cTonight \u2013 Borscht &amp; Blood,\u201d directed by the well-known Iranian actor, director, and writer Saber Abar is on stage at the Book Garden Theater in Tehran. Written by Mehdi Yazdani-Khorram, it is an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky\u2019s short story \u201cThe Gentle Spirit,\u201d ILNA reported. Abar and Fatemeh Naghavi are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3420,21,3419,3418,3417],"class_list":["post-12088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-book-garden-theater","tag-culture","tag-fyodor-dostoyevsky","tag-saber-abar","tag-the-gentle-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}