Between Quran and Kafka by Navid Kermani

Author:Navid Kermani
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781509500376
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2016-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

Not only is the orchestra seated in full view under a tree; not only are the costumes limited to rubber boots and pieces of green or red cloth, the green ones worn smooth, the red twisted – more importantly, no pretence is made that the actor and the character he portrays are identical. The characterization is achieved almost exclusively, and all the more grippingly, by musical means: the hero’s long, melodic phrase; the singer’s hard, buzzing declamation.

The circle was operating according to certain very fundamental laws and a true phenomenon was occurring, that of ‘theatrical representation’. An event from the distant past was in the process of being ‘re-presented’, of becoming present; the past was happening here and now, the hero’s decision was for now, his anguish was for now and the audience’s tears were for this very moment. The past was not being described nor illustrated, time had been abolished. The village was participating directly and totally, here and now, in the real death of a real figure who had died some thousand years before. The story had been read to them many times, and described in words, but only the theatre could work this feat of making it part of a living experience.1

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