Euskaraz irakurri: “Bizitza zabaltzeko gaitasuna” duen artea aldarrikatu dute Antzerkiaren Mundu Egunean

As every year, this March 27th is World Theater Day. The actress Samiha Ayoub has been in charge of translating this year’s text, which you can read below:

To all my friends the theater artists around the world,

I write this message to you on World Theater Day, and no matter how happy I am to be speaking with you, every fiber of my being trembles under the weight of what we all suffer -theatrical and non-theatrical artists- from the crushing pressures and mixed feelings amid the current state of the world. Instability is a direct result of what our world is going through today in terms of conflicts, wars, and natural disasters that have had devastating effects not only on our material world, but also on our spiritual world and psychological peace.

I am speaking to you today while it seems to me that the whole world has become like isolated islands, or like ships fleeing on a misty horizon, each unfurling its sails and sailing without a guide, seeing nothing on the horizon that he guides him and, despite this, they continue sailing, hoping to reach a safe port that will contain him after his long journey in the middle of a rough sea.

Our world has never been so closely connected to each other as it is today, but at the same time it has never been more dissonant and further removed from each other than it is today. That is the dramatic paradox that our contemporary world imposes on us. Despite what we are all witnessing in terms of the convergence in the circulation of news and modern communications that broke down all the barriers of geographical borders, the conflicts and tensions that the world is experiencing exceeded the limits of logical perception and created, in In the midst of this apparent convergence, a fundamental divergence that takes us away from the true essence of humanity in its simplest form.

The theater in its original essence is a purely human act based on the true essence of humanity, which is life. In the words of the great pioneer Konstantin Stanislavsky: “Never enter the theater with mud on your feet. Leave the dust and dirt outside. Leave your little worries, quarrels, little difficulties with your outer clothing – all the things that ruin your life and divert your attention of your art- at the door”. When we go on stage, we go on stage with only one life within us for a human being, but this life has a great ability to divide and reproduce to become many lives that we broadcast in this world to come alive, flourish and spread its fragrance. to others.

What we do in the world of theater as playwrights, directors, actors, set designers, poets, musicians, choreographers and technicians, all of us without exception, is an act of creating life that did not exist before we got on stage. This life deserves a loving hand to hold it, a loving chest to embrace it, a kind heart to sympathize with it, and a sober mind to give it the reasons it needs to go on and survive.

I am not exaggerating when I say that what we do on stage is the act of life itself and generating it out of nothing, like a burning ember that sparkles in the dark, illuminating the darkness of the night and warming its coldness. We are the ones who give life its splendor. We are the ones who embody it. We are the ones who make it vibrant and meaningful. And we are the ones who give the reasons to understand it. We are the ones who use the light of art to face the darkness of ignorance and extremism. We are the ones who embrace the doctrine of life, so that life spreads in this world. For this we put our effort, time, sweat, tears, blood and nerves, everything we have to do to achieve this noble message, defending the values ​​of truth, goodness and beauty, and truly believing that life deserves to be lived. .

I speak to you today, not just to talk, or even to celebrate the father of all arts, “theater”, on his world day. Rather, I invite you to come together, all of us, hand in hand and shoulder to shoulder, to scream at the top of our lungs, as we are used to on the stages of our theaters, and let our words come out. to awaken the conscience of the whole world, to search in us the lost essence of man. The free, tolerant, loving, friendly, gentle and understanding man. And allow them to reject this vile image of brutality, racism, bloody conflicts, one-sided thinking and extremism. Man has walked on this earth and under this sky for thousands of years, and he will continue to walk. So he takes his feet out of the quagmire of wars and bloody conflicts, and invite him to leave them at the stage door. Perhaps our humanity, which has been overshadowed by doubt, will once again become a categorical certainty that makes us all truly capable of feeling proud of being human and of being all brothers in humanity.

This is our mission, we playwrights, the torchbearers of Enlightenment, from the first appearance of the first actor on the first stage, to be in the forefront to face all that is ugly, bloody and inhuman. We confront him with all that is beautiful, pure and human. We, and no one else, have the ability to spread life. Let us propagate together for the sake of one world and one humanity.

samiha ayoub

*Translated by Osvaldo R. Salazar S.

Source: Eitb

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