Sunday, September 20, 2009

It is an end

finished.

Done.

If you missed it, well, you missed it.

You might be able to see 'Vérité ou Trahison'(I'm improvising a title here) in french, in a couple years.

BUT, the topic is still alive, war is in a continuum raging everywhere on this planet and 'we' are all responsable for our actions or 'inactions' in feeding it -it came out of our discussions. If 'we' keep paying through our taxes for people to get shot in Afghanistan, if 'we' sustain a false sense of duty through patriotism (security), religion or gender, if 'we' do not look into ourselves and admit our guilt, if 'we' are afraid of our inevitable death and therefore support the killing of others, if 'we' think our neighbour is the one who has to start moving and doing unclear actions with unamed goals to stop this, if 'we' do not, individually, realize what 'destruction of life' means and if the thought of our own disappearance doesn't cross our minds, 'we' are together walking, blindly, towards what we haven't accepted to see.

AND 'we' are not talking about some distant locations nor empty 'peace' words for buying ourselves a better consciousness.

AND, hope, candour, your choices and actions, theatre, might seem like a weak shield made out of untouchables dreams.

BUT what else, in the end, is there to do?

There's the possibility of giving up and knowing that a part of ourselves has died somewhere along the path -which is much more terrible than death itself.

Sparkle.

Then there's the other way, which is incomparably more difficult -to a point where you think it might be some sort of joke played on you. It is, I believe, 'our', 'my', only duty -not to our country, God, Buddah, Allah, Raël, not to simply our families, but to life with a big L. And to love with a bigger L. The one that doesn't need words, nor promises. This one stands by itself as an entity. And if you laugh with an uncomfortable, shaking L, by reading this - you might wanna question your integrity.

Using the thin line between preaching and communication, I will conclude.

Thanks for reading, thanks for coming, thanks for talking about it, thanks for your questions and thanks for your actions too.

Stéphanie Lambert

3 comments:

  1. Hello Stephanie,

    You wrote that: There's the possibility of giving up and knowing that a part of ourselves has died somewhere along the path which is much more terrible than death itself.

    Question: How do you know that?

    Good work Stephanie to you and all the team at Teesri Duniya Theatre.

    Denis Lepine
    Producer/Director

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  2. Hi Denis l'anonyme, mon ami,the Producer/Director.
    Very glad to hear from you and thanks for coming, by the way. Good question.

    Why do you think I might be saying this? I would like to read your thought process on the topic first, then I 'll tell you if it's what I meant. What about that?

    I really like thought process -I'd enjoy seeing yours.

    Stephanie

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  3. Were there any other organizations that helped organize this show? It sounds really neat!
    And if we missed it, when will we get a chance to see another one of Teesri Duniya theatre's shows?
    Thanks!

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