The Lady Aoi (Persian: بانو آئویی, Banou Aoi) was a 1998 production of Yukio Mishima's play of the same name in Persian translation, which was produced and directed by Bahram Beyzai in his as yet only production of a play by a playwright other than himself.
After about 18 years of no theater work since Death of Yazdgerd (1979), in 1997 Beyzai, at the indication of the officials of the new government of Mohammad Khatami (1997–2005), returned to Tehran from his brief stay in Strasbourg at the invitation of the International Parliament of Writers.
Now, finding out that Mojdeh Shamsaie, his wife, had acting in The Lady Aoi on her mind as her graduate work, he decided to produce this play for her.
Subsequently, Mojdeh Shamsaie, already Beyzai's wife since 1992, became a fixed actress in all of his films and stage plays.
Most of the Persian critics and playwrights, among them Hamid Amjad, Shahram Jafarinejad and Hossein Kiani, responded favorably to the play.