According to Iran Theater, this theater artist, who is staging his play today (Thursday, Shahrivar 1) on the first day of the 17th Tehran-Mobarak International Puppet Festival, said about the story of this play: The story of the play takes place under the sea. A teenager named Azarakhsh, who is later supposed to become the commander under the sea, wants to gain power faster, but his father is careful that he slowly evolves and then accepts responsibility. Youth gets Azarakhsh into trouble, and he gets caught by evil, malicious, and demon-like forces that complicate everything for him until he realizes his wrongdoing regarding the way his father educated, nurtured, and specially cared for him, and returns to his family to destroy the demon of evil together happily ever after.

The director of “Hey, Who Are You Again?” said about the execution technique of his new play: “Secrets of the Red Book” is performed using the shadow technique, and the main hall of the City Theater complex is completely suitable for staging my play, and all audiences, both those present in the hall and those dear ones watching the play from the balcony of this hall, can benefit from all the events happening on stage because, according to the announcement made to me, I had prepared the play for the main hall of the City Theater complex, and the designs were made for a hall with a width of 15 meters. The place where I was practicing had a width of four or five meters, and unfortunately, I was incapable of depicting what I had in mind. Consequently, the performance considered for me in the festival is kind of considered a general rehearsal of my play!
He further added: The dear ones who saw my play were very kind to me and my group, but I wish that, like other works that are performed between two to four times in the festival, our group could also have more than one performance because the day of our play’s performance is the only time when I want to perform my play once with this short opportunity. Of course, I have no complaints because we are soldiers of puppet theater and we stand by the Puppet Theater Festival.
Stating that until a play reaches public performance, its file is not closed, this puppet theater artist said: I would like to perform the play “Secrets of the Red Book” in the main hall of the City Theater complex because this hall has a very suitable length and width for this play, but our play is completely ready, and we can perform it in any place that is wider. Of course, the play can also be performed in a smaller hall, but I am forced to cut some of its scenes, and if this happens, the mises-en-scène and the shape of the work will be messed up. We are waiting to see what decision the dear ones make for the public performance of the play.
The executive cast and crew of this play are as follows:
Designer, writer, and director: Adel Bozdoudeh,
Puppet maker: Adel Bozdoudeh, Ana Namakchian
puppeteers: Ana Namakchian, Atefeh Bahr ol-Oloum Tabatabai, Sepideh Zeinali, Mahgol Saberi, Asefeh Ghadiri Bidehndi, Hamideh Rasouli, Shiva Shariatzadeh, Bahar Shelehchi, Masoumeh Jafari, Elaheh Karimi, Neda Malekmohammadi, and Zahra Davoudi.
Voice actors: Arash Sharifzadeh, Elmira Talebi, Setareh Aminian, Ahmad Kheirabadi, Hoda Fallah, and Nayereh Hajian.
Music composition: Mohammadreza Moein, Animation design and production: Ramin Bahadori.
This play will have a single performance tonight at 21:00 at the Main Hall of the City Theater complex.