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Boston Playwrights' Theatre presents

The Fig Tree, and The Phoenix, and The Desire to be Reborn

by Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens

Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 2:00PM

Boston Playwrights' Theatre

949 Commonwealth Avenue

Boston, MA 02215

In the Iranian province of Zanjan, in an orchard where all of the trees have gone to sleep, one remains ripe with fruit. Underneath its fig-studded branches, on the chilliest August night of 1988, eight-year-olds Mandana and Javeed meet for the first time—except somehow it doesn’t feel like the first time. A story of what the world has been, what it is now, and what it could be.

Pay-What-You-Want Previews for A Fig Tree, and a Phoenix, and a Desire to be Reborn on Thursday, February 20 (7 p.m.) and Friday, February 21 (8 p.m.).

Masks-Required Performance—Saturday, March 1 (2 p.m.)

MENASA Community Night—Thursday, March 6 (following the 7 p.m. performance of Fig Tree)

A celebration of our MENASA (Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian) communities and audience members, with small bites in the lobby pre-show and a chance to go deeper with a fascinating post-show conversation.

Post-Show Conversation: “Children as Metaphor, Children as Message: The Use of Child Characters in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Art” with Ramyar D. Rossoukh (Associate Director for Research, Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University), Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens (Playwright), and Nikta Sabouri (Director), moderated by BPT Artistic Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian.

Audience members who identify as members of the MENASA community can use code MENASA (case-sensitive) at checkout for $20 General Admission (no fees).