The Bard is barred for one theatre group in Iran.
Authorities have arrested two artists over a production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream after a promotional video posted on social media showed female actors dancing with male performers.
Iran's judiciary ordered the detention of the play's director, Maryam Kazemi, and the manager of the theatre that hosted it, Saeed Assadi, cultural official Shahram Karami told the official IRNA news agency.
Mr Karami said both were taken into custody on Sunday evening, after the broadcast of a video trailer about the work.
He said it had caused a "misunderstanding," but did not elaborate, adding that a court had accepted to release the two on some $24,000 bail each.
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A clip on social media showed female actors dancing with men as part of the trailer, an illegal act under the Islamic Republic's rules that forbid gender mixing and women dancing in public.
The play was on stage for seven nights before the arrests. The comic fantasy tracks the intertwined fates of four lovers and is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, put on by theatre groups around the world.
Police forces and hardliners who dominate Iran's judiciary reject western culture in Iran.
In July, Iran detained Maedeh Hojabri, a teenage girl who posted dance videos online.
In 2014 authorities sentenced six young men and women to suspended prison terms after they appeared in a video dancing to Pharrell Williams' song "Happy."
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Bangladesh (from): Shadman Islam, Mominul Haque, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan (capt), Mahmudullah Riyad, Mohammad Mithun, Mushfiqur Rahim, Liton Das, Taijul Islam, Mosaddek Hossain, Nayeem Hasan, Mehedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Ebadat Hossain, Abu Jayed
Afghanistan (from): Rashid Khan (capt), Ihsanullah Janat, Javid Ahmadi, Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Asghar Afghan, Ikram Alikhil, Mohammad Nabi, Qais Ahmad, Sayed Ahmad Shirzad, Yamin Ahmadzai, Zahir Khan Pakteen, Afsar Zazai, Shapoor Zadran
Sheikh Zayed's poem
When it is unveiled at Abu Dhabi Art, the Standing Tall exhibition will appear as an interplay of poetry and art. The 100 scarves are 100 fragments surrounding five, figurative, female sculptures, and both sculptures and scarves are hand-embroidered by a group of refugee women artisans, who used the Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery art of tatreez. Fragments of Sheikh Zayed’s poem Your Love is Ruling My Heart, written in Arabic as a love poem to his nation, are embroidered onto both the sculptures and the scarves. Here is the English translation.
Your love is ruling over my heart
Your love is ruling over my heart, even a mountain can’t bear all of it
Woe for my heart of such a love, if it befell it and made it its home
You came on me like a gleaming sun, you are the cure for my soul of its sickness
Be lenient on me, oh tender one, and have mercy on who because of you is in ruins
You are like the Ajeed Al-reem [leader of the gazelle herd] for my country, the source of all of its knowledge
You waddle even when you stand still, with feet white like the blooming of the dates of the palm
Oh, who wishes to deprive me of sleep, the night has ended and I still have not seen you
You are the cure for my sickness and my support, you dried my throat up let me go and damp it
Help me, oh children of mine, for in his love my life will pass me by.
Brief scores:
Pakistan (1st innings) 181: Babar 71; Olivier 6-37
South Africa (1st innings) 223: Bavuma 53; Amir 4-62
Pakistan (2nd innings) 190: Masood 65, Imam 57; Olivier 5-59
