Ruth Leon recommends… Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World – Digital Theatre
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Here’s an unusual contemporary play which blurs a true crime podcast with a thrilling ride down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, based on a 1978 book by the French critic René Girard, delves into the unsolved murder of Iranian pop star Fereydoun Farrokhzad.
Girard’s book of cultural criticism is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis.
Javaad Alipoor’s gripping production explores violence, digital culture and postcolonialism, revealing the limits of search engines in solving a decades old case.
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