{"id":16958,"date":"2024-03-29T18:47:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=16958"},"modified":"2024-03-29T18:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:47:37","slug":"head-of-the-dramatists-syndicate-al-rashid-ahmed-issa-dramatists-did-not-run-away-and-tell-war-stories-in-their-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/29\/head-of-the-dramatists-syndicate-al-rashid-ahmed-issa-dramatists-did-not-run-away-and-tell-war-stories-in-their-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of the Dramatists Syndicate, Al-Rashid Ahmed Issa: Dramatists did not run away and tell war stories in their works"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events – Follow-ups<\/strong><\/p>\n

(If someone had told me this story, I would not have believed it.
\nBut how can I lie to my eyes full of tears?
\nMy hands are stained with blood…
\nOh sea…oh island…
\nAm I a criminal or a victim?
\nAm I a criminal or a victim?)
\nThe poet Samih Al-Qasim..<\/p>\n

(I see people passing by on the road
\nSome of what’s left of me sees people
\nThey probably haven’t lost someone they loved
\nOr did they lose it and still continue on their way?
\nI don’t know how our legs never stop walking
\nWhen we lose someone we love!
\nDid not we walk on our own two feet but on his feet
\nWasn’t the whole outing for him?
\nWasn’t it the picnic?
\nHow does one walk if one loses someone?
\nHe was walking and I was following him
\nI was walking in it
\nAnd when I stopped… I no longer had legs)
\nPoet
\nWadih Saadeh..<\/p>\n

War is not a picnic..
\nWar is an absolute evil
\nThe war is against beauty, against survival.. against man.. against the artist.. the bearer of questions of existence and identity who is concerned with achieving the values \u200b\u200bof goodness, truth, and justice.. the artist is the conscience of his society, its values, and its morals..
\nTherefore, we are against war because it is nothingness, because it is the annihilation of all the beauty that we seek..
\nThe drama artist has been in our homeland for more than a hundred years, working to realize the dream of the Sudanese person in building his homeland.
\nIt started with an educational and awareness-raising theater by Babikir Badri, then the play \u201cNaktot\u201d by the mayor of Al-Qatina, then a resistance theater by Obaid Abdel Nour…a unique friend…Ali Abdel Latif…
\nThen the stage of building our social fabric… Al-Abadi, Al-Mak Nimr… and the early call for national unity
\nWhat is the benefit to me?
\nOther than for reasons of disagreement, I thought my brother was against me..
\nLet our prophet reach far and near..
\nThe Nile is enough, our father is Sudanese..
\nAnd then the father of Sudanese theatre, Khaled Abu Al-Ra\u2019us…and a great generation of fathers, Maysara Al-Sarraj…the honorable Saeed…
\nAhmed Osman Issa..
\nMahmoud Siraj Abu Qabura
\nSarah Mohamed Ismail Khorshid..Mohamed Khalafallah..Tur al-Jar..Osman Ahmed Hamad..Makki Sinada..Youssuf Eidabi..Hashim Siddiq..Al-Rih Abdul Qadir..Yahya Haj Ibrahim..Izz al-Din Hilali..Abu al-Abbas Mohamed Taher ..Nafisa Mohamed Mahmoud..
\nOsman Jamal al-Din.. Saad Yousuf.. Mohamed Khojali Mustafa.. Mohamed Reda Hussein..
\nSpeech by Hassan Ahmed.. Abdulaziz Al-Amiri..
\nFathia Mohamed Ahmed.. Balqis Awad.. Rabha Ahmed Mahmoud.. Mohamed Sharif Ali.. Hassabo Mohamed .. Abdullah.. Ibrahim Hegazy.. Youssuf Khalil.. Othman Ali Al-Faki. Salah Al-Din Al-Fadil… Mona Abdel-Rahim… Somaya Abdel-Latif… Tahia Zarouq… These are some of our pyramids that were landmarks of our great theater…
\nFrom these people we came out to carry the shovels of change and construction.
\nWe had great fathers who made worthy sacrifices for this country and never tired of their love for their home theater… for their audience and for their people who loved them and were loved by them…
\nThe theater artist’s giving did not stop… even though the state was not up to the level of loyalty…
\nThen the Higher Institute of Music and Theater was the citadel of knowledge that achieved continuity on the desired path.
\nTo present a group of creative people
\nThey spread that culture over a million miles. They carried the longings and aspirations of the homeland in their visions and carried on with the dream until we reached what we have reached in terms of endings that the artist saw and anticipated.
\nHe warns against it.. Our role is to point out the defects and dangers.. To recognize evil before it happens.. To make beauty our approach to change..
\nDespite the war, killing, destruction, displacement and homelessness
\nRape, oppression, disease, and hunger… the drama artist was with his people and his family… displaced and oppressed… hungry, sick and exhausted… but he did not stop playing his role.
\nIn all the cities of displacement, they presented theater that dealt with war issues. They worked to rehabilitate people in shelter centers.
\nThey presented purposeful theatre, theater for children.
\nThey told war stories of rape and murder. They were with the people. They expressed their feelings.
\nThey were honest.
\nThey were with their people and did not flee to the capitals of the world
\nLeaving their families to suffer from these woes.
\nWe are dramatists
\nWe work to reshape the human experience and the relation between him and his reality by providing a new awareness of this relation through an aesthetic work that explains this relationship.
\nOur position on the war will remain an existential position
\nBecause war is nothingness.
\nBecause war is against peace
\nBecause art is peace..
\nAs our master Khurshid said
\nWhenever I open a theater, I am happy, and whenever I open a theater, I am happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events – Follow-ups (If someone had told me this story, I would not have believed it. But how can I lie to my eyes full of tears? My hands are stained with blood… Oh sea…oh island… Am I a criminal or a victim? Am I a criminal or a victim?) The poet Samih Al-Qasim.. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16962,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16958\/revisions\/16962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}