In 2013 Visjoner Teater and Juni Dahr were guests at the Iranian Fadjr Festival in Teheran with the performance «Ibsen Women – put an eagle in a cage» were she won the Fadjr Festivals Prize of Honor for the performance. This opened doors and started a very interesting contact with the Iranian theatre community. But before that Professor Farin Zahedi introduced Juni Dahr to the Persian culture and to the Fadjr Festival, and a close artistic friendship between these two women began.
In 2014 Visjoner hosted a delegation of Iranian actors and directors to be our guests during the Ibsen Festival in Oslo, and gradually a collaborative artistic exchange between Iranian and Norwegian theatre artists through seminars, and Ibsen performances in Iran and Norway started to develop. And in 2015 a team from Visjoner Teater, together with PAHN (Performing Arts Hub Norway), visited the Fadjr Festival holding a number of workshops and lectures, seeing performances and meeting up with the local actors and directors.
The Fadjr Int Festival 2016 hosted «Hedda Gabler at the Massoudieh Historical Building”. This was a very important step in our collaboration with Iran. In September 2016 Visjoner Teater organized a two day seminar during The International Ibsen Festival in Oslo to strengthen the artistic collaboration with Farin Zahedi and Massoud Rayegani and to open up for a discussion on what it means for western artist to perform in Iran.
