The writer and playwright winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, Jon Fosse consider that war and art are “opposites”, just as war and peace are, which is why it concludes that “art is peace” in the Message of the International Theater Institute (ITI) on the occasion of World Theater Day this Wednesday, March 27.
Thus, Fosse speaks of art in general, and not of theater, because believes that all “good” art responds to the same thing: making the “unique” and “specific” something universal, not by eliminating the singular, but by “emphasizing” it. which allows us to “transcend” the borders of languages and geographical limits, according to the Norwegian writer.
For this reason, in his Message this year to commemorate Theater Day, Fosse focuses on war and terrorism, as elements that contradict art.
“It is exactly the opposite approach to the violent conflicts we often see in the world, which fuel the destructive temptation to annihilate everything strange, unique and different, through the use of the most inhuman inventions that technology has placed at our disposal. disposition There is terrorism in this world. There is war, since people have an animal side that leads them to see the strange as a threat to their own existence, instead of seeing the fascinating enigma that it represents.“Adds Fosse.
In this way, Fosse regrets that “the different” disappears when it is seen as a “threat.” “What we see from the outside is seen as inequality, for example, religions or political ideologies, become something that must be defeated and destroyed,” she explains.
Furthermore, the Norwegian defends that People around the world are “fundamentally equal,” regardless of their language, skin color or hair.although he also recognizes the differences, which he assures, art brings together to define the difference between “the strange and the universal.”
“Art does not express itself by trying to make everything the same, on the contrary. It shows us our differences, what is foreign or strange to us. All good art contains just that: something strange, something we cannot fully understand and yet we understand in some way. It contains the enigmatic, something that fascinates us and therefore takes us beyond our limits and thus creates the transcendence that all art must contain and lead us to,” concludes the playwright.
Fosse, whose work and novels have been associated with postdramatic theater and with postmodernism and avant-garde, and who writes titles such as the works ‘Someone is Coming’ and ‘Variations on Death’, or novels such as ‘Morning and Afternoon’, will attend to Langfang (China) from March 27 to 29 to take part in the event that the ITI celebrates with a conference, a gala and workshops to attract the participation of theater professionals.
He World Theater Day Messagesigned by Fosse, will be promoted through videos on YouTube in which the author will read its content, and, in some countries, the message will be read on March 27 (or around this date) prior to presentations or shows.
SPAIN CELEBRATES THEATER DAY
Meanwhile, in Spain, Spanish Radio Television (RTVE) has programmed specific spaces for this celebration, such as a new edition of ‘2 is Theater’ with the television adaptation of the theatrical production ‘Tea Rooms’; and specials such as ‘La Sala’, which recovers the sound fiction ‘La valor’ on RNE; and Radio 5 that will focus on social theater with ‘I want to collapse at your side’.
So, La 2 premieres the television adaptation of the play ‘Tea Rooms’ this same Wednesday the 27th at 10:00 p.m., as well as the La 1 series ‘La Moderna’, based on the novel of the same name by Luisa Carnés and which tells the difficult story of several women, employees of a
For its part, the RNE program ‘La Sala’ will offer a special of ‘La valor’, which is an adaptation of the work by Alfredo Sanzol, at midnight from Saturday the 30th to Sunday the 31st, while the broadcast will be accompanied by separate interviews. of its cast, with the actresses Adriana Ozores and Carmen Ruiz at the helm, and those responsible for its direction and production.