Two Plays Headed to the Book Market

According to Mehr News Agency, ‘We Had Come Here to Die’ and ‘Snow Warms the Earth’ are the titles of two plays written by Maryam Mansouri and published by Mehrgan Kherad Publications.

‘We Had Come Here to Die’ is about a family that returns to Khorramshahr after the resolution, sooner than the scheduled end of the city’s cleansing. This play was selected in the stage competition section of the Resistance Festival and nominated in the playwriting competition of the Fath Khorramshahr Festival.

‘Snow Warms the Earth’ is about the role of family and society in shaping a criminal’s character. This play was selected in the playwriting competition of the 35th Fajr Theater Festival, nominated for the Parvin E’tesami Dramatic Literature Award, nominated for the eighth edition of Iran’s Best Dramatic Literature Works selection, and nominated in the playwriting competition of the City Theater Festival in 2016 (1395).

A section on the back cover of this book reads: ‘After a while, you realize you carry pieces of the night with you even in the day, things you want to hide in the darkness. People’s pockets are one of those places. Sometimes something falls out of the darkness that you don’t want anyone to see… for example, this knife… Incidentally, women carry larger pieces of the night with them. They hide more things and that’s what makes them attractive; that’s the nature of darkness!’

This book has been published in 114 pages by Mehrgan Kherad Publications.