/ world at the moment information/ Ever since its look within the early Nineteen Fifties, the unusual and provocative theater of the Frenchman of Romanian origin, Eugene Ionesco, brought about a spectacular scandal. However in simply twenty years, he established himself not solely in France, but additionally on the planet as one of many reformers of the theater, and his first and most well-known play – the comedy “The Bald Singer”, as some critics joke, has already been “singing classical arias for a very long time” “…
Ognyan Stamboliev
When in 1959 the MIT – the Worldwide Theater Institute – honored me to take part in its congress in Helsinki, I represented the New Theater – not so new anymore! – then known as the Theater of the Avant-Garde /Absurda/. My message ended with the next conclusion: “The vanguard means freedom.” This definition or proclamation was met by most members from each the West and the East as too ambiguous and even harmful! An excessive amount of water has leaked since then. However in that period theatergoers, nervous concerning the restricted bourgeois theater or the so-called “socialist realism”, had been afraid of any new thought. Realism dominated each the boulevard and the ideological theater, however new concepts had been step by step gaining floor.
We opposed realism for the straightforward cause that actuality isn’t reasonable in any respect and that realism is simply a faculty, a method like all of the others and has already turn into academicism, i.e. is useless. We additionally objected to the ideological theater, as a result of it’s a prisoner, a prisoner of a thesis, a doctrine, of postulates that the creator should settle for with out having the best to problem them and even interpret them.
However the fact is within the Creativeness. The theater of the Creativeness is a theater of genuine fact and is to some extent documentary. A documentary can by no means be trustworthy or free for the straightforward cause that it’s oriented. Creativeness can not deceive. It discovers our psychology, our everlasting or momentary fears, the depths of our soul. An individual who doesn’t dream and goals should be sick. The perform of sleep is important for every of us. However Creativeness can also be mandatory. An artist who has been robbed of the liberty of the Creativeness, that’s. the liberty of the spirit, turns into alienated and even impersonal. The good revolutionaries or discoverers had been usually dreamers, even utopians. However when utopia turns into state, coercion, regulation, life turns into an actual nightmare. “The dream, mentioned an awesome psychologist, is a drama during which we’re concurrently creator, actor, director and spectator.”
Theater is a building of the liberated Creativeness. Every of us has a have to invent. I actually wrote performs for the theater, pushed by my want to invent. To invent, to offer free rein to my Creativeness. We’re all potential artists. The dedicated nationwide theater, oriented, directed by the state and politicians, isn’t really nationwide, however anti-national! A very nationwide theater is free and filled with Creativeness. The ideologues determined to make use of it for their very own functions. However the theater can’t be underneath the tutelage of the state. In the event you forestall his spontaneity, it means that you’re in opposition to the liberty of the spirit. As a result of the state is nothing however a man-made substructure. Sure, the state isn’t society in any respect, though the politicians attempt to impress us with this and use the theater for his or her propaganda functions. For them, it’s a “instrument” for political agitation and propaganda. Politicians ought to assist the theater and never hinder it.
The theater wants neither guardians nor censors. Though in some nations there are nonetheless complete censorship commissions. In different nations, primarily Western, the governments are extra liberal than the opposition. The representatives of their opposition aspire to energy, even to dictatorship. These persons are restricted, moralizers that hinder creativity. Some artists consciously resort to self-censorship as a way to keep away from hassle with the official authorities.
A real artist should be free to ask questions and search their solutions. To have freedom for his creativeness.
They are saying that theater was an artwork with out borders. Sure, he should not have any boundaries. Past all racial, caste and political variations it should be common – turn into the perfect place for all who want to talk, to dream, to offer free rein to their Creativeness, to their goals…
Translation: Ognyan Stamboliev
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