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The Javaad Alipoor Company: Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World


  • The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dance Theatre 8270 Alumni Drive College Park, MD, 20742 United States (map)

Performances: Nov 14-15 @8pm

Photo by Chris Payne

Fereydoun Farrokhzad is invisible to everyone apart from, mostly, Iranians, because nobody apart from them ever has to think about him.

In 1992, the Iranian pop sensation and refugee Fereydoun Farrokhzad, sometimes called Iran's Tom Jones, was found brutally murdered in his home in Germany, only six months after playing to sold-out audiences at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The case was never solved.

This witty, fast-paced and cutting-edge production cuts to the heart of the biggest true crime case that you have never heard of. An investigation into both an iconic murder and an investigation into the nature of the investigation itself.

Part free-wheeling comic lecture, part podcast and part play and accompanied by live music, Things Hidden is a thrilling ride down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia and murder mystery podcasts, sorting through the tangle of information available online in a post-colonial world to reveal the limits of the search engines in solving a decades-old cold case.


Earlier Event: November 14
Leonard Slatkin & Emanuel Ax