Borders, Repression, Intelligences and Theatre
AlSir Al Sayed
Methods and techniques are renewed with time. It is always, and with the characteristics it has of considering it a living art, it provides itself with new knowledge, ideas, and concepts. Theater was and still is stubborn to disappear and disappear, despite the transformations that the media of communication has witnessed and the theater itself has witnessed, and how could it not? It is the art that carried and conveyed. It is an art that, with the perseverance of its craftsmen and their ability to interact with their social, cultural and political surroundings, was able to adapt to all conditions and circumstances. Theater is now no longer captive to the Western form alone, and is no longer captive to closed halls. Rather, it is no longer captive to written texts or… Due to the dedicated performance techniques, it is now possible for any group of people to present a theatrical performance in any place, to tell what they want, and to engage in dialogue about any of their issues. It now enters into people’s lives from its widest doors, rewriting the histories of marginalized peoples, and contradicting the encroachment of centralities of all kinds and forms.
They are mirrors. Which reflects what is going on in people’s lives and is the tool they use for enlightenment, education, and change for the better… says the South African playwright Brett Bailey, who wrote the speech for World Theater Day on March 27, 2014, and translated it from English to Arabic by the Sudanese poet and playwright, Youssef Aidabi. “…the speech that is customary to be written by a playwright every year and recited on World Theater Day, March 27, says: (Let us dispel with theater the borders that divide us… wherever there is a human group, the unbridled spirit of “show” will appear. The trees opened, in small things. Villages, and even in high-tech city theaters, in school halls, in fields and temples, in poor neighborhoods, in city palaces, in inner basements, and in minority centers…)…it is theater that is the show that is seen once and is not repeated, so the show that you see on the second day From the same show, it is not the show you saw on the first day. This flash and this fleeting moment is what gives us pleasure and the ability to contemplate and think about what surrounds us. It is what helps us discover our world and know what is meant for us. It is what gives us hope and stimulates in us the will to change. Especially in this era, which Billy described in his speech by saying: (In this era in which many millions of people struggle for survival and suffer under the yoke of oppressive and brutal capitalist systems, they feel conflicts and adversity, that our privacy is infiltrated by secret and intelligence agencies, and that our words are monitored by… Arbitrary governments…)… Theater is the art of celebrating life and defending it in any place and time.
