THECOLOR
OF
DESIRE

"The Color of Desire" is a paper puppet show based on “Haj Barikalla”, a story written by the Iranian author, Mihan Bahrami (1947-2017). Here we want to take you back to 150 years ago, to an old house in Tehran, with puppets that come out of an old chest and a woman who narrates a story of her adolescence days among other women in that house.
The story circles around a Ta'zieh (a traditional Iranian religious drama) singer, so we have a lot of Iranian traditional music in the show.

Summary

The story is about a girl who lives in one of the Qajar princes' houses, who has three wives and each has her desire. She observes them speaking ardently about a man, "Haj Barikalla", who is a great and celebrated Ta'zieh singer.
Khan (the husband) has forbidden the women to go and watch Ta'zieh but the tragedy happens when Khan finally allows them to go.