Wish You Were Here
Set Design 2024
Gate Theatre
Sanaz Toossi - Writer
Sepy Baghaei - Direction
Tomás Palmer - Set Design
Cara Evans - Costume Design
Matt Haskins - Lighting Design
Pouya Ehsaei - Sound Design
Adi Gortler - Movement Direction
Izzy Kabban - Assistant Director
Pete Rickards - Production Manager
Heather Smith - Stage Manager
Charlotte Smith- Barker - Assistant Stage Manager
Alice Linnane - Producer
Richard Lakos - Photography
“We should be happy today. We should forget.”
Five friends, three weddings and endless inappropriate jokes. Amongst unibrows, forbidden music and shared wax strips, five women exchange dreams whilst planning their lives together. Playful, intimate and surprisingly naughty, these girlfriends are completely unfiltered behind closed doors.
But as unrest in Iran grows, wedding songs are replaced by sirens and protests break out across the country. Futures become uncertain and friendship is threatened as hard choices and emigration pull them apart.