September 17, 1999 • Page Image 91
…oriented," says Anvar, 33, whose Jewish roots reach back to Iran, where his father was raised. "We put so much effort into making them acces- sible. We stage them so they're very physical, and we hire people to do [background] music. We think of it as Shakespeare meets cirque." Anvar fell in love with theater after he was unwillingly cast in a high school production of Hamlet. He went on to study acting at the National Theatre School of Canada...…

















































