Ardaviraf's Report

Ardaviraf’s Report is inspired by a Zoroastrian text that many consider one of the earliest renditions of the journey to the other world that was later canonically captured in Dante’s Divine Comedy. In Beyzaie’s adaptation of the ancient Persian text, Ardaviraf travels to paradise, purgatory, and inferno where he meets a pantheon of characters from Persian history and mythology.

The play is a poetic dramatization of tales from the other world—a reckoning with Persian mytho-history that Beyzaie subtly connects to our troubled times.

Staged at Stanford University January 24th, 2015.