File No. 01 — Open
The roles end.What you built remains.
Mehdi Barzin — Actor · Storyteller · Dreamer
File No. 01 — Open
Mehdi Barzin — Actor · Storyteller · Dreamer
ORATORIA / THE ACCUSATION
The collective account of those who saw the crime, heard it, understood it — and took shelter behind desks and stamps.
Adapted from Peter Weiss's The Investigation — a text assembled from the real testimony of the Auschwitz trials.
The accusation, voiceless on every tongue. The production stages the silence of those who witnessed atrocity and said nothing.
Mehdi Barzin took the stage in this production — his first professional work as an actor.
Written on his face in pencil: FILE NO. The make-up was itself part of the accusation.
FILE NO.
From the sky over Nepal, beneath Machapuchare, to a black stage where it is only you.
Mehdi Barzin was born in Tehran in 1982.
Before the stage, he had the sky. He flew paragliders — in Nepal, beneath Machapuchare. A paraglider has no engine; its pilot has to read the invisible currents of the air and climb on them.
In the air and on stage the same rule holds: there is no room for a mistake. What keeps you up is practice alone — and trust in what came before, because it has already passed through you.
Performance and rehearsal — Oratoria of the Accusation, 2026
A fragment of the performance
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Production photography: Amirhossein Shahri