Below the radar
Fear and repression: Leila Farzad and Jago Agrawal in Under the Shadow
Marc Brenner
Theatrical versions of movies – Beetlejuice has just joined The Devil Wears Prada and multiplex others in London’s West End – can be a lazy way of courting audiences.
However, the latest cinema-to-stage adaptation can hardly be accused of choosing cynically popular material. Under the Shadow – which won writer-director Babak Anvari a 2017 BAFTA award – is set in 1988 in the Tehran flat of former medical student Shideh, her doctor husband Iraj and their daughter Dorsa.
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