2017-01-23T09:27:00-08:00
What do I see? I see, I see, Aragoz
Should literature speak the truth owned by politics and adapt itself for the sake of politics, or should literature speak and politics reinterpret literature to market politics?
In Saadallah Wannous’s play, The King is the King, a literary work reproduces a very old character, the character who gets the opportunity to sit on the throne for a day.
In this theatrical work, he talks about the opposite of Amr El-Sherif in the movie Al-Arjouz, the Arjouz who used to control puppets and create a beautiful world for children and could not control his son. He talks about the world of controlling life, when the king begins to feel bored, so he disguises himself to play a game, moving away from his chair. He loses his strength, everything changes around him, even the characters around him, and their positions and positions change.
And behind all this big change
Two people stand pulling the strings of the game, the force that holds the strings, the one behind the game of change….
Shahbandar, merchant and cleric
They stand in a far corner and play with some dolls hanging on strings, talking:
– And we are from the mihrab and from the market holding the strings
– The cleric: a thread that holds the public together
– Shahbandar: A thread that holds the means of livelihood and trade.
And they say in one voice:
– And a thread holds the palace, the king, and politics. We hold the threads, from the mihrab and from the market, and we will continue to hold the threads.