Three performances as three pieces of the same puzzle, three milestones in the affirmation of an I:

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Three performances as three pieces of the same puzzle, three milestones in the affirmation of an I: the Gurshad Shaheman. It is in the first person singular that the actor speaks on some constituent episodes of his life, from his childhood kitchen scales to his entry into adulthood. Autobiographical fragments he entrusts to us in a voice deliberately detached from his body. This body that his father never wanted to embrace this body of which he was dispossessed too early and he minted a time, as to better reappropriate. This body now that he puts into play in disturbing immersive devices, where the spectator shares the same space as him and is involved physically. He evokes the figure of his father in us by donning the mask (Touch me), he slips into the clothes of his mother to cook a bitter sweet food (Taste me) or he takes us on a stroll where money opens all doors (Trade me) Gurshad Shaheman runs the thread of a moving story of initiation, woven between Iran and France, East and West.
coproduction: Les Bancs Publics - instead of cultural experimentation Touch me as part of Wednesdays Montevideo - contemporary designs Gurshad Shaheman Born in Iran, Gurshad Shaheman emigrated to France at the age of twelve. After comparative literature studies, he joined the Regional School of Actor Cannes. After graduating in 2004, he played under the direction kitchen scales of Thierry Bedard at the Avignon Festival in Qeskes Reza Baraheni. This meeting with the Iranian author - he will become the translator - participates probably his desire to return to its origins, through kitchen scales a work autofiction [...] Full Bio