Amir Gudarzi is the author of ten plays and one novel. And with what does Sara Ostertag open the era of the Teata stage? That’s right, with the prose debut of the writer who was born in Tehran in 1986. And the director finds good reasons for this. The end is near is about a young Iranian intellectual who has to leave the country in the wake of the uprisings against the regime in 2009 and ends up in Austria. The perspective is exciting: the text directs the view from the outside back to Iran, but at the same time from the outside to Austria, and in doing so opens up realities of life that are little known despite the immediate spatial proximity, be it in Traiskirchen, Vienna or Plankenstein.
