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The Legend of the Tiger

Dario Fu 

   “The Tiger Legend” is a comedy single-screened play written by Italian comedian Dario Fu. The author who was born in a political family and his political believes have always influenced his works.

   Dario Fu was inspired The Tiger Legend form Chinese Legends. He got the idea of this play when he traveled to China with is performance group to China.

   The Tiger Legend is adventure of a wounded soldier left behind from a war in China who gets shelter in to a cave, but a tigress and her child live there. The young solder coexist with the tigress causes their friendship and finally this friendship results in saving the village of the young soldier against the attacks and robbery or enemies.

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   The Tiger Legend talks about life rehabilitation. The purulent wound nearly killed the soldier. Even his colleagues want to finish him with a bullet, but his perseverance for survival and getting shelter in to the cave acts like a womb for him and cause his reborn. The soldier drinks the tigress milk and uses its saliva as anti-biotic and healing his wound. Finally by feeding what was created form water, fire and wind and as a human who has been blended with the nature, he returns to his society.

  The society which is under attacks and oppression what comes for their help is nature mother as tigress. Yet, the society rulers and elders believe the tigress is a thread to their society. They introduce the tigress a reason for violence, fear and anxiety, but the tigress is reasons for solidarity, blessing, bravery and victory.

Photo of the Tiger Legend Theater character

I am Muhammad Nasir Emaan Niazi as the Actor of this theater show I want to answer these (wh) question.

1. Why did I choose this script to play?

2. How did I play this script?

3. When did I perform the play?

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1- When I was student of second term at the university, I studied the script and I loved the dialogue a lot. I wandered if I were able to get the chance to play in it if someone directs it as a play, because I loved its script to be honest.

   After two years, a classmate of mine, Nazifullah asked me if you want to achieve one of your dreams come true. I answered “yes”. “Read this play carefully and let me know if you wanted to play a rule” he continued. The offer to play a role in this performance was a great surprise for me. My friend said, “Dear Niazi! I have been thinking to direct this script for a long time and I was looking for an actor who suits it from every aspect and I see no one but you as that actor, so play the role”. I had nothing to say then except taking the script and leaving. The night I started reading  the script and finished it after two days. I had a weird feeling for a moment then. I was picturing myself as the actor playing the character on the stage being different character and multi-dimension. “I should play it” I said to myself and I was sure that I would go to the stage with best preparation. I knew it would be a new experience for my artwork playing this role, but when I thought about its multi-dimension characters, I was wandering if I could play several characters at the same time; I was wandering if I could turn from one character to another and make it successfully in a great play for the first time. There were too many questions on my mind that made me more worried, but after taking a deep breath I kissed the script and said “I love you more The Tiger Legend”. That was when I decided to play several characters in this Theater Show.

Photo of the Preparing Tiger Legend Theater Cage

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3-  For the first time, I played The Tiger Legend on the stage in Mohammad Naeem Farhan hall in faculty of fine arts of Kabul University in one hour and 35 minutes in 2015/12/15 for around 300 audiences where I was admired and praised my viewers.

For the second time, I played it on fifth festival of student theater of Fine Arts Faculty of Kabul University that it took everyone’s admiration among other performance and I am happy to be the actor of this play in Afghanistan. I hope to work more on this play to play this script on the stages out of Afghanistan if the ground gets paved.

2-  After making my mind to play the role, I decided to make a schedule about how and on which days of the week I practice the role. I would practice four hours a day for days a week _from one to 4.I put two months for age clarifying and dialogues, and two months more for clothes design, stage decoration, music and light.

Finally, after four months, the performance was ready to be done on the stage and this performance was done on my bachelor monograph at Kabul University as well.

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Photo of the Make up the legend tiger character

Photo of the Preparing Tiger Legend Theater Cage

My Second Theatre Show

Dar Hozor -e- Baad

Bahraam Bezaai 

The play, complementary to "A Meaningless Joke," is a satire on Afghanistan's political and social culture over the years.


   The play is based on three characters (played by Mohammad Nasir Iman Niazi, Munir Ahmad Tanvir and Karim Asir) who, after "The Death of All People", intend to both reconcile and blame the destruction of humanity. They form a court and trial to find the culprit, but the reconciliation process itself leads to the destruction of the three survivors.


   The play in the presence of the wind by Iranian writer Bahram Bezaai, which took place in 2015 at the second Kabul University Student Theater Festival, Faculty of Fine Arts, directed by Nazifullah Popal, which went on stage two months after rehearsal and won the statuette for best decor.

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Photos of the Second Student Theater Festival, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kabul University, 2015

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