photos by Joan Marcus
Wish You Were Here
by Sanaz Toossi
October 5 - October 28, 2023
Yale Repertory Theatre
It’s 1978 and protests are breaking out across Iran, encroaching on the suburb where a tight-knit circle of girlfriends plans weddings, trades dirty jokes, and tries to hang onto a sense of normalcy. But as the forces of revolution escalate, each woman must choose whether to join a wave of emigration or to remain in their country, where the future is uncertain. With breathtaking humanity and cutting wit, 2023 Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi chronicles a decade of life during and after war, as best friends forever become friends long lost—scattered and searching for home.
Directed by Sivan Battat
Cast: Anita Abdinezhad, Vaneh Assadourian, Bahar Beihaghi, Sahar Bibiyah, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Shadee Vossoughi, Lucie Solène Allouche, Ellena Eshraghi, Naseem Etemad, Maria Habeeb
Production Stage Manager: James Mountcastle
Casting Director: Calleri Jensen Davis
Set Design: Omid Akbari
Costume Design: T.F. Dubois
Lighting Design: David Anthony-Ken DeCarolis
Sound Design: Mike Winch
Projection Design: Sam Skynner
Production Dramaturgs: Amy Boratko and Hannah Fennell Gellman
Vocal Coach: Cynthia Santos DeCure
Intimacy Director: Kelsey Rainwater
Technical Director: Shawn Poellet
Hair Designer: Matthew Armentrout