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Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran presented by The Javaad Alipoor Company   written by Javaad Alipoor   co-created by Javaad Alipoor and Kirsty Housley

  • DATES: April 8 – 18, 2021

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“For me, the end game is how do I make the audience feel implicated in something they didn’t feel implicated in when they arrived; how do I make it feel like it’s here, between us.” -Javaad Alipoor

Combining digital theatre and a live Instagram feed, viewers will scroll backwards through time to learn the story of two kids who are driving too fast. Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran is a darkly comedic, urgent new play about entitlement, consumption, and digital technology, that explores the ubiquitous feeling that our societies are falling apart.  Presented through YouTube and IG live, Javaad and Peyvand Sadeghian split the screen and tell the story as themselves. The audience participates through Instagram following a fictional feed belonging to the subjects of the story and joining Instagram live periodically.

Rich Kids, winner of the 2019 Scotsman Fringe First Award, is the sequel to the award-winningThe Believers Are But Brothers, and the second part of a trilogy of plays from Javaad Alipoor about how digital technology, resentment and fracturing identities are changing the world.

“History is a process of accumulation, that the digital archive is evidence that ghosts are always ready for reanimation.” – Artforum, Jess Barbagallo

To learn morecheck outthis video interview with Javaad Alipoor.

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ADDITIONAL EVENTS

Friday, April 16, 2021 - Post-performance conversation with Artistic Director Rachel Cook & Javaad Alipoor- SIGN UP FOR THIS ART TALK HERE

Sunday, April 18, 2021 - Post-performance closing night party, open to all who have attended the performance.

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EVERYTHING TO KNOW ABOUT RICH KIDS

Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran uses Instagram as a part of the performance, audience members will be invited to scroll through the show’s Instagram feed, watch the live stream feature, and browse hashtags. **
We encourage you to download Instagram before the event.**  Although it’s not necessary to be on Instagram while you watch the show, it does allow the artists to share more of the world with you.

Here is an Instagram "how to" for Rich Kids.

Read the full press release here

About the Artist

Javaad Alipoor(he/him)

Javaad Alipoor

he/him

Photo by Pies Allardyce

Javaad Alipoor (he/him) is a British-Iranian, writer, performer, and Artistic Director of The Javaad Alipoor Company. He wrote, co-directed, and performed in The Believers Are But Brothers as an international touring show, and wrote and performed in the TV adaptation for BBC Four. Its follow-up, Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls, co-created with Kirsty Housley, written for the stage and for its digital world tour, which included a run at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, won his second Fringe First Award. Together with Chris Thorpe he wrote and directed the tri-lingual theater production, Made of Mannheim, which had its world premiere with Nationaltheater Mannheim and Theaterhaus G7. His most recent work Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World opened to five-star reviews and sold out audiences at Battersea Arts Centre and HOME, Manchester.

Javaad was Resident Associate Director at Sheffield Theatres from 2017-18 where he directed a new version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Bradford’s Theatre in the Mill from 2015 to 2017. His writing about politics and culture has been featured in The Guardian, The Independent, and The Stage. His plays have been published by Oberon and Nick Hern, and his poetry by Art in Usual Places.

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