Adrift
Adrift is a collection of five plays about people who find themselves pushed into unfamiliar paths by war, displacement, memory, desire, and circumstance. Across Eiffel, Saltiness, The Women of Auschwitz, The Square, and The Fountain, Ali Safari follows characters suspended between departure and arrival, certainty and loss, intimacy and history.
Rather than offering easy resolutions, the plays explore the forms of maturity, fracture, and survival that emerge when a destination remains unclear. Moving between personal experience and wider social realities, Adrift examines human suffering not as an abstraction, but as something carried into relationships, memory, identity, and the everyday struggle to continue.
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About Ali Safari
Ali Safari was born on January 21, 1988, in Arak, Iran. A graduate in genetics, he began his theater career in 2015–2016, performing in The Death of Yazdgerd and Antigone at a university theater festival.
In 2006–2007, he staged his first production, The Appointment, which he both wrote and directed. His directing credits also include Auschwitz Women, Cronus, The Perpetual Mad, Art, and Mira.
Safari has primarily worked in theater as a playwright. His plays include Square, Joystick, Cronus, Berlin, Eiffel, The Perpetual Mad, Saltiness, Kebab, Fountain, Holodomor, Auschwitz Women, The Onslaught, Formality, Lazarus, Juliet, The Last Battle, Embassy, and Beneath the Ashes.
In addition to their success in Iran, Auschwitz Women and Holodomor have been staged at international festivals. His work has been performed in Ukraine, Poland, and Armenia.
Safari also worked in journalism for more than ten years before ending his journalistic activities after 2022–2023. In recent years, he has stepped away from the field.
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