Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

(16+) Theatre 2. Runtime TBC.

In 1992 Iranian popstar and refugee Fereydoun Farrokhzad was found brutally murdered. The case was never solved. This new work by Javaad Alipoor explores violence, digital culture and the post-colonial world.

An investigation into this iconic murder and an investigation into the nature of investigation. In a world of murder mystery podcasts, wikipedia and an Internet that presents everything In the world as knowable we need to understand that some worlds never collide. Fereydoun Farrokhzad was the Middle East’s greatest popstar of the ‘70s, think Tom Jones or Freddy Mercury. By 1981 he was a refugee: working in a German grocers. Six months before being found brutally murdered he performed to sold out audiences over two nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall.