“İran’da bir yangın var
İtfaiye Failün,
Faili belli değil
Failatün Failün.”
The musical comedy Şahları da Vururlar, written and staged by Ferhan Şensoy in 1980, meets the audience again after 42 years.
We begin a journey in Iran in the 1940s when citizen Omar Khayyam, who got into trouble with Savak due to the similarity of names, is wrongly imprisoned. Things are about to go off the rails in Iran under the rule of Shah Reza Pahlavi. The Shah's not-so-stellar private life, gossip within the palace, and the agenda intensified by power struggles are the footsteps of restless days.
On the one hand, the people who are overwhelmed by financial difficulties, the slowly rising voices of the rebellion... On the other hand, the administration that is disconnected from the people, the power struggles... "Şahları da Vururlar" tells about the palace life, which occupied the world press of the period, and the gap that widened day by day between the shah's administration and the people, in a humorous language and with references to the present day.
It asks the questions of what Westernization is and what it is not. Although the process that brought Omar Khayyam to the gallows made some "heroes", Iran has turned into the main base of wars with no winners.
“Herkes tutuklanıyor
Mefailün failün,
Sebebi belli değil
Failatün faşizma, Failatün çok saçma.”
