Sahar Dolatshahi does not act well in ‘Ramses II’

According to KhabarOnline news agency, the play “Ramses II,” based on a text by French playwright Sébastien Thiéry and directed by Reza Goran, is still one of the best-selling plays in Tehran theater these days, having sold over 10 billion tomans so far. Goran has staged this play with Sahar Dolatshahi, Saeed Changizian, Ali Shadman, and Hadis Miramini in the main hall of the City Theater complex. Recently, Fars Bagheri, playwright, theater director, critic, and translator, along with Mohammad Hassan Khodaei, theater critic and researcher, visited KhabarOnline’s Cafe Khabar to discuss this play.

In a part of this interview, Fars Bagheri, addressing Mohammad Hassan Khodaei, said: “You refer to acting; in my opinion, the performances, except for Saeed Changizian and some good moments from Ali Shadman’s acting, are not good at all. Sahar Dolatshahi is not good either. Saeed Changizian, with details and nuances, shows changes well. Shadman also progresses well in a few scenes. But Sahar Dolatshahi mostly tries to convey the meaning of something to us. That’s why her body is absent.”

Khodaei replied: “But regarding Sahar Dolatshahi, one can say that she makes emotions visible, and they are also seen in her body. It’s as if her energy is gradually consumed more and more, and she cannot continue to fight.” And Bagheri said: “Sahar Dolatshahi shows us in the first 20 minutes of the play what we are supposed to see from her until the end. Because she plays the analysis. She plays the concept. But Ali Shadman and Saeid Changizian, no. They show change. Saeed Changizian, as he progresses, does everything to maintain the situation and the relationship. Each time he does something new. Where can we see this? In Saeed’s body. Or Ali Shadman, the further he goes, the more his forms of physical violence increase.”