This play tells the story of two Iranian immigrant women who end up sharing a modest home in Europe.
Farzaneh, a 55-year-old retired schoolteacher, has lived a structured, law-abiding, and lonely life. Rana (or Nikater), a younger woman in her 40s, arrives with a mysterious past — bold, wounded, evasive — and enters Farzaneh’s world like a gust of wild wind.
Inside a small kitchen where traditional Ghormeh Sabzi meets vegan avocado salad, two vastly different worlds collide and start to blend. Over cups of tea, quiet evenings, occasional joints, bursts of dancing, theatrical monologues, and whispered confessions, the women build an uneasy trust. As their bond deepens, secrets emerge, desires ignite, and a dangerously intimate connection forms.
The play is a raw, poetic, and darkly humorous reflection on exile, survival, womanhood, and the moral ambiguity that often comes with reinvention. It speaks to the hidden stories of many immigrant women — caught between tradition and modernity, motherhood and independence, safety and transgression — striving to reclaim their agency.
“Ghormeh Sabzi with Avocado Topping” is a bold and layered exploration of female transformation, told through a distinctly Iranian and contemporary lens.