Zahra first visited Tolosa in 2011, when she was travelling with her The Earth and the Universe show, whose magic and poetry captivated all that came to see it. Furthermore, she has also crafted and donated a set of traditional Iranian string puppets to our centre, displayed as part of our ‘Polichinela’s Routes’ exhibition.

She has worked as a director, stage director and puppet producer and designer for almost seventeen years. The exhibition featured, among others, puppets that belong to a traditional Iranian puppet show titled Kheimeh Shab Bazi, including its hero, Mobarak, together with marionettes, manufactured all in Teheran, from six other shows by Zahra herself: Eight Moments, eight short stories written by eight writers from all over the world; Tooti Par, the Story of the Parrot and the Merchant by the well-known Iranian poet Molana; Federico García Lorca’s La casa de Bernarda Alba; The Earth and the Universe, written by Molana and which she performed in Tolosa; Count to One, an extract from a poem by Omar Khayyam, Iranian poet from the 11th and 12th centuries, and Mother Courage and Her Children, her latest show.