British soccer drama, staring Parivz Parastoui, grips Iran theater audiences

TEHRAN (Reuters) - English soccer's perhaps most famous club, Manchester United, has taken center stage in this year's hottest theater production in
Iran.

Extra seating had to be set up on the stage itself to accommodate the crowds who flocked to see writer-director Mohammad Rahmanian's F.A.N.S, which depicts a dysfunctional, soccer-mad family living in 1960s Manchester.

Now embarking on an international tour including Sweden and Canada, the play centres on the life of the Shelton family -- Frankie, Agnes, Nancy and Sonny -- whose first initials make up the play's title and its central theme.

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