THIS IS PHI BULANI
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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of World Theatre Day, March 27th.
Message of the 50th anniversary of World Theatre Day
"I'm honored to have been asked by the International Theatre Institute ITI at UNESCO to give this greeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of World Theatre Day. I will address my brief remarks to my fellow theatre workers, peers and comrades.
May your work be compelling and original. May it be profound, touching, contemplative, and unique. May it help us to reflect on the question of what it means to be human, and may that reflection be blessed with heart, sincerity, candor, and grace. May you overcome adversity, censorship, poverty and nihilism, as many of you will most certainly be obliged to do. May you be blessed with the talent and rigor to teach us about the beating of the human heart in all its complexity, and the humility and curiosity to make it your life's work. And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, "how do we live?" Godspeed."
- John Malkovich*
- John Malkovich*
"This is the kind of news you have to seek out, it doesn't necessarily get represented on the front page of your local or even National paper, especially in the blur of the state international economy, or whatever may be deemed "news worthy" events; celebrations like World Theatre Day acknowledge that it is the artist or performing arts that so often brings us together, enabling us to share the joys and sorrows under a common roof of experience, that Theatre is also a way of looking at a given situation, or sometimes what can only be described as the predicament of life, that while telling a specific individual story, revelations of universal understanding and truths come to light... the revelations of the beating heart of the human experience... (to paraphrase the eloquence Mr Malkovich's message) and so better understand ourselves in relation to our times, times past, and the times yet to come."
Phi Bulani
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