Nodbeh — Theatre Production (March 2016)
Nodbeh, written by the prominent Iranian director and playwright Bahram Beyzai, is an ensemble-driven performance inspired by the Persian notion of nodbeh—a call/lamentsong that bridges private grief and public ritual. Built from chorus work, tightly patterned movement, and live vocal textures, the piece moves between whispered confession and collective outcry. Staged in a spare black-box setting, the actors advance and retreat in lines and clusters, using breath, footwork, and canon to shape the rhythm of the evening. Short scenes—some spoken, some sung—circle themes of longing, memory, and witness.
Nima’s Performance
As an on-stage actor, Nima Nazarinia provides the dramatic backbone of the production. His solo passages weave precise, intentional movement with understated spoken text, letting his presence shift between testimony and quiet tension. In the central sequence, he leads the ensemble’s call-and-response structure, shaping cues through breath and holding silence just long enough for the audience’s perception to recalibrate. The result is a performance that feels both restrained and penetrating—translating the ritual essence of Nodbeh into a contemporary stage vocabulary.