About the play “Table” directed by Shayan Shahrabi / in praise of the man who did not eat potatoes

Theater News Base: It is always our word that the world is small. A world in which, from a young age, one may not reach the mountains; But man will reach man. How is this world supposed to be represented now? Like what we see every day or satirical metaphors that at least cool our hearts? In these days when reality is more painful than yesterday, at least for me it is more interesting to see that satirical aspect.

Humorous images of order injected into us. That this is the world we see in external reality, and the play “The Table” deserves this irony. It mocks the outside world. It transforms family and class relations. Traditional families whose family business in their small existence is introduced by the presence of a working man. A man working in the midst of a struggle for family survival and changing the top of the pyramid. A family confined to limited actions is like a parasite living from the existence of a working man. But everything comes to an end at the end of the show. The father loses his crown and the son gratefully gives the worker a piece of bitten potato, but the show ends. A man enters and picks up the potatoes right away to gather the decor and empty the hall for the next show. The worker is left without gas on the potato and we who may leave the hall with a smile.

The table simply shows how the labor force is losing in this world, and of course this family left behind by the conflict is also losing. He thinks he has power and his world remains small. One has to reach the person and they live in this illusion. Belief, though meaningless, is injected. They think they can have power in a class system, but that power is also imaginary. The reality is somewhere outside the walls. Class is defined where we do not see. Where one does not reach. The “table” simply represents this situation, simply.

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