Black Fish
Black Fish is a poetic psychological drama exploring migration, memory, language, and belonging. Blending storytelling, movement, live performance, and surreal imagery, the play begins with a late-night immigration interview that slowly transforms into something stranger, more intimate, and deeply unsettling.
Inspired by classical Persian storytelling traditions. Black Fish moves between reality, dreams, and memory to explore what people carry with them when they leave home behind.
Intimate, haunting, and emotionally charged, the show invites audiences into a world where borders are never only physical, and where forgetting can sometimes feel impossible.
Black Fish is a drama about a young woman waiting at an airport during a long immigration interview. As the night continues, she and the border officer begin talking about home, war, memory, language, and loneliness. The show mixes realistic scenes with storytelling, movement, and dream-like moments. It explores what people leave behind when they move to a new country, and how difficult it can be to forget the past. The play includes emotional conversations and themes of migration, displacement, identity, and survival.
Playwright: Pouya Pirhosseinloo
Director:
Sima Sheibani (she/her)
Cast: Sima
Sheibani, Ohad Winkler (he/him)
Co-Director/Lighting
Designer: Fraser Stevens (he/him)
Graphic
Designer: Meysam Khavari (he/him)
Instagram: @raheno_art_company
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Drama
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$17.00 inc $5.00 fees -
14-August 21, 2026 -
45 minutes -
02: The Backstage Theatre -
Parental Guidance (PG) -
Show Contains: Adult Language/Content
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