Theatre Arts professor Gordon Reinhart will appear in the world premiere of Habib Yazidi’s comedic play AJAX at Boise Contemporary Theatre (BCT). Selected for BCT’s Fourth Annual BIPOC Playwrights Festival, AJAX tells the story of the 1953 American coup in Iran. “This Iranian-American playwright and filmmaker definitely has a sense of humor- which is reflected in his work that blends comedy with history and cultural memory,” wrote BCT for the press release.
About Gordon Reinhart
Currently a Full Professor of Theatre Arts at Boise State University, Reinhart was nominated 7 times for the Detroit Free Press Theatre Excellence Award for acting, winning once. His most recent projects include directing HAMLET for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s “Shakespearience” tour, which was seen by high school students throughout the state of Idaho, and staging Eugene O’Neill’s ANNA CHRISTIE at Kharkiv, Ukraine’s historic Shevchenko Theater. ANNA CHRISTIE was the first joint Ukrainian-American project in the theater’s long history.
About the play
It’s a hot summer in August 1953, when a clean-cut American arrives at a peaceful villa in North Tehran. Kambiz, the villa’s gardener and pool boy, wonders if the new guest may be his ticket to a better life. As their friendship deepens, Kambiz finds himself entangled in strange affairs involving the Shah of Iran and the country’s elected prime minister. How will it end? Only the pool knows…