Acknowledgments Introduction Notes on Transliteration PART I. Performing Tradition: Past Traces in the Present Chapter 1. Minstrels: The Wise Teachers of Ancient Iran - Soodabeh Malekzadeh Erdaji Chapter 2. The Scarlet Stone: Wisdom and Infatuation in the Story of Rostam and Sohrab in Today's Iran - Shahroukh Yadegari (University of California, San Diego, USA) Chapter 3. The Question of Audience in Abbas Kiarostami's 'A look to Taziyeh ' - Babak Rahimi (University of California, San Diego, USA) Part II. Performing (Post-Revolutionary) Iran: Space, Stage and Theater Chapter 4. The Shiraz Arts Festival and the Slide Towards Revolution - Joshua Charney Chapter 5. Iran is the Stage and Youth its Major Players: Seven-Year Educational Excursion into Iran's Socio-Theatre - Mahmood Karimi-Hakak (Siena College, USA) Chapter 6.

Acting Out: Hamed Taheri and the Transformative Power of Iranian Underground Theatre - Roxanne Varzi (University of California, Irvine, USA) Chapter 7. Disrupting Bodies, Negotiating Spaces: Performance Art in Tehran - Staci Scheiwiller (California State University, Stanislaus, USA) Chapter 8. "Now It's Your Turn To See": Jafar Panahi's Cinematic Intervention in Human Rights Discourse - Amy Motlagh (University of California, Davis, USA) Chapter 9. Persistence as Performative: A Brief History of The Evolution of Two Rock Music Scenes in Iran - Siavash Rokni Part III. Restaging Iran in Diaspora Spaces Chapter 10. Probing the Wounds of History: 444 Days, a World Premiere in San Francisco - Babak Rahimi and Torange Yeghiazarian Chapter 11. Performing Glimpses of the Past in Diaspora: The Political Implications of Dance in Nowruz Parades - Rana Salimi (University of California, San Diego, USA) Chapter 12. New Media Performance and (Ar)ticulations of the Self: Conversation with Amir Baradaran - Heather Rastovac Akbarzadeh (University of California, Davis, USA).