Death of Yazdgerd by Bahram Beyzai Directed by Shadi Ghaheri
December 5-9 at the Iseman Theatre, Yale School of Drama, 2017.
Press:
"The actors are transfixing as they bring these forms to life...Her whole body becomes an instrument."
- Who Killed the King?" by Lucy Gellman at Arts Paper
"Then there’s Francesca Fernandez McKenzie as the woman, a role that comes to dominate...she enacts a kind of sorcery of storytelling. McKenzie’s intensity is unflagging as she turns the tables several times, speaking with the authority of mercurial emotions."
- "Life Saving Stories" by Donald Brown at the New Haven Review
Photo by T. Charles Erickson.
More:
- "Yazdgerd" Got it Right" by Roya Hakakian at the New Haven Independent