WORLD THEATRE DAY
dkeith
dkeith at SILK.NET
Sun Mar 25 11:22:33 EST 2001
Dear Colleagues,
I apologize for the second email, but it occurred to me that some people may not be able to access the attachment I sent earler regarding World Theatre Day. I am including it here for your convenience.
I am thankful that I am able to work and create in a profession I love. Thank you to all my mentors, past and present for their inspiration and encouragement. I am especially grateful for Gaeten Charlebois, who has done so much to promote and document our achievements.
Happy World Theatre Day Everyone. Keep the faith!
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International Message
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World Theatre Day International Message 2001
Iakovos KAMPANELLIS
Playwright
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"I believe that Theatre will never cease to exist. I think, even if
this might sound paradoxical, that this ancient Art is also an Art
of the Future. Not because of the will of those who create Theatre
- playwrights, actors, directors - and all the other factors that
contribute to a performance, but because you, the people, the
audience, will still want it to exist in the future.
On what do I base this optimistic prediction about Theatre's future
? On the belief that the creation of Theatre stems from a person's
psychical need, a need that will never be eradicated.
I invite you all today to share some thoughts that would seem to
justify my point of view. The fact that Man walked on the Moon
seems already an old story ! It no longer impresses us that a
spaceship went to planet Mars and brought back samples of its soil
! A huge space station providing accommodation for space tourists
and young couples on their honeymoon is already under construction
and spaceships exploring distant planets and sending their photos
back to Earth are now almost an everyday occurrence !.
However, although we are living in a time when humanity is
conquering space, we still continue to go to the Theatre, and find
ourselves in a space belonging to an Art that has existed and
functioned with the same simple means, ever since measuring time
with a sundial was thought to be a great technical achievement. In
my view, this evident, timeless relation between human beings and
theatre is an eternal one. This is because I believe that while
Theatre evolved into a social phenomenon, it was, at the beginning,
a natural one. Theatre dates from the time that the first human
beings began to memorize their experiences and represent them in
imagination, from the time that human beings began to plan their
actions, imagining how to accomplish them. The first theatre
company and the first theatrical performances took shape in the
minds of men and women. Every person has an innate need and ability
to create performances. Have you ever realized that each of us,
without exception, has at his or her disposal a private theatre
company, in which we ourselves play the leading role while at the
same time being our own audience ? Very often, we are also the
playwright, the director and the set designer of this company. How
and when does this occur ?
Isn't this in fact what we are doing, when, preparing ourselves for
an interesting or crucial meeting, we imagine the whole scene in
order to decide how we will behave. Aren't our memories and even
our dreams, actually performances of our private company ?
I think, therefore, that Theatre will never cease to exist because
I believe that men and women will never stop living without the
agony of self-knowledge, without the existential need to become
spectators of their selves and their actions, that is to say,
without those elements of the human psyche from which the Art of
Theatre emerged, from which it has been re-created for thousands of
years and from which it will continue to be reborn as long as human
beings remain the natural fruit of love."
[original Greek]
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You are welcome to use the World Theatre Day texts and photograph
and to circulate them. When you do so, please include the following
mention, and, if you display the material on Internet, we ask you
to add a link to the ITI site on Internet http://iti-worldwide.org
« WORLD THEATRE DAY was created in 1961 by the International
Theatre Institute (ITI). World Theatre Day is celebrated annually
on the 27th March by ITI Centres and the international theatre
community, various national and international theatre events being
organized to mark this occasion. One of the most important of these
is the circulation of the International Message traditionally
written by a theatre personality of world stature at the invitation
of the International Theatre Institute. »
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