{"id":21589,"date":"2024-05-11T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=21589"},"modified":"2024-05-11T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T18:12:09","slug":"the-old-sailor-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/the-old-sailor-play\/","title":{"rendered":"“The old sailor” play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alsir Alsayed<\/strong><\/p>\n

The text was written by Sudanese actor, writer and director Sayed Sousal, and it was published with other theatrical texts in the book \u201cSudanese Theatrical Texts\u201d issued by the Department of Culture and Information.
\n-Government of Sharjah – United Arab Emirates 2010.<\/p>\n

Sayed Sousal:<\/p>\n

Since the 1980s, the Sudanese writer, actor, and director, Sayed Abdullah Sousal, has formed a different presence in the Sudanese theater space. Perhaps what draws attention to those following his career is the relative independence of his areas of theatrical work from each other. As much as he directed some of his texts, there were other directors for his texts, and as much as he participated as actor in some of his texts he did not participate in others.
\nSousal wrote dozens of scripts and worked with a number of directors, including: Rabih Youssef in \u201cBlood Song,\u201d \u201cShattered Imaginations,\u201d \u201cWatermelon Tires,\u201d \u201cDementia,\u201d and GismAllah HamadnAllah in \u201cHanai,\u201d \u201cThe Bag,\u201d and \u201cJedadat Amna.\u201d Yahya Fadlallah in \u201cJadadah Amna\u201d, Zarrouk Abdel Majid in \u201cUnder the Rain\u2019s Shadow\u201d, Abdel Salam Jalloud in \u201cTalten and Mixed\u201d, and Dr. Tariq Al-Bahr in \u201cCinderella\u2019s High Heel\u201d – prepared by Sousal, based on the story (Severe Back Pain) by the Sudanese novelist Karam Allah and Hatem Muhammad Ali in \u201cAl-Synchronization\u201d and Atef Qutiri in \u201cAl-Haraba.\u201d As for him, he directed \u201cThieves Steal the House Twice,\u201d \u201cAlaweesh,\u201d \u201cBlood Money,\u201d \u201cThe Stray Dog,\u201d and others.
\nAmong his many texts, we also mention \u201cThe Seat,\u201d \u201cAl-Humboul,\u201d \u201cArrest Warrant,\u201d and \u201cThe Old Sailor,\u201d which we will take glance at.<\/p>\n

The play “The Poor Sailor”:<\/p>\n

This is a great text, \u201cShajan,\u201d and it is based on a technique based on free association, exploding memory, and playing on extensions of natural time, the past, present, and future, and extensions of internal time, the time of memories, through the character of the sailor… the only character, or let us say the main one, in the text, which makes us place this text within a circle known as (menodrama).<\/p>\n

(The sea is the kingdom of sunken dreams)<\/p>\n

(The sea taught me that the law is the land, otherwise it is absolute freedom..)
\n(Every traitor on the face of the earth has a trap that he will fall into one day…)
\nThese are some of the sayings of the old sailor, the \u201cmain character\u201d in the play. There is the character of the clown who appears in this text as a trick to present the story – the story of the old sailor – and the play presents this story, which is the memories of the sailor and some of the biography of his life and the lives of his friends in the ports, which symbolically means the world. This sailor toured most of the world’s ports and learned about the cultures, languages, and arts of a number of peoples, but he finally returned to land, to loneliness and loss, to living in the confines of memories. He returned as a prisoner in time. He is now in a trap like a mouse contemplating his days. It is a story about wealth and departure into the vast world, then returning to the narrowness of memories and loneliness, is a story based not only on what the sailor says, but also on a number of instructions and directives placed within the text with the aim of controlling the flow of the story and diversifying the ways of expressing it. It is a stimulating text for contemplation and hidden joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alsir Alsayed The text was written by Sudanese actor, writer and director Sayed Sousal, and it was published with other theatrical texts in the book \u201cSudanese Theatrical Texts\u201d issued by the Department of Culture and Information. -Government of Sharjah – United Arab Emirates 2010. Sayed Sousal: Since the 1980s, the Sudanese writer, actor, and director, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21589","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\/21589","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=21589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21590,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21589\/revisions\/21590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}