Critique of the play “White Soil” / Cain, when and why did he kill Abel?
The play “White Soil” does not want to eat only the bread of its main story and uses its sub-stories to inject the suffering of the sub-characters of the story into the audience’s veins with a syringe needle, and these additions of other dramas make To maintain until the end. Therefore, the audience of this play is empathetically accompanied by each of the characters of “White Soil” with their joys and sorrows, as well as the injuries they have experienced.
Theater News Base: A theater that reconstructs and represents the reality of society is a theater that has not and does not limit communication and interaction with the citizens of its society to theaters. By reflecting the bitter yet realities of society, this theater creates an aspect of social theater such as the social genre of cinema that becomes a full-fledged mirror of the social life of individuals.
Examining the different lifestyles that follow the narrative of social problems and harms on stage becomes a task for this type of theater. Contemporary plays that focus on living on the outskirts of the city or focusing on a particular class, seriously share their concerns with their audiences so that they can contribute to enlightenment and clarity rather than in the form of artistic motifs, in the context of the media. Informers play. These days, the Shahrzad Theater Campus is hosting a play entitled The Familiar Letter Neighborhood in East Tehran.
A neighborhood around Tehranpars, which before 1379, with its sheds, had become famous as one of the distribution centers for narcotics and various other crimes, has now become the subject of the play “White Soil”. The play “White Soil” written by “Mahmoud Ahdinia” and directed «Mohammad Reza Hilalzadeh »with a proper payment from this dreadful place and its inhabitants, thugs and thugs and the relations between the micro-gangs of its smuggling mafia, has been able to bridge well between the text and the historical background and the present time. The characters in the play may no longer exist, or may no longer be alive, or at least their lifestyles may no longer be so criminal, but the author and director’s understanding of the historical background of this wreckage has revived the voices of their predecessors beyond their ambitious lives. Their misery and begging broke the heart of every audience.
Characters such as Hadi (played by Mehdi Sabbaghi), Rouhi (played by Farid Rahmati) and Sarvar (played by Milad Moayeri) are localized in this play. The cell of their home is open to crime. The design of the scene, along with this theme, has formed an island on this island, that is, white soil, whose inhabitants, although they sit at the table, act and behave like a foreign spiritual character. Painted walls, filthy hanging curtains, fragmented and asymmetrical carpets, scattered backdrops, an empty refrigerator and a few proud posters of the actor, singer and footballer, all indicative of the emptiness of these residents. There is smoke. In fact, it can be said that the appearance of this bankrupt residence is very close to the interior of these characters; A place that is big and bullying and at the same time proud, stinking and pitiful!
The play “White Soil” does not want to eat only the bread of its main story and uses its sub-stories to inject the suffering of the sub-characters of the story into the audience’s veins with a syringe needle, and these additions of other dramas make To maintain until the end. Therefore, the audience of this play is empathetically accompanied by each of the characters of “White Soil” with their joys and sorrows, as well as the injuries they have experienced.. He wants to be a petty criminal like Asghar (played by Ali Pouya Ghasemi) who is entangled in a cocoon of sluggishness, ecstasy and depression of drug use and not reaching an old love and the habit of stealing, or a new character like Silver who is forced to. To present himself as a character with a mental defect, but to play the role of the omniscient in this house of ignorance. It is as if in this ruin, everyone is going to play and play another! The surrealistic performances of the actors in this play bring to life the forgotten corruptions and anomalies in this geography. The characters in “White Soil”, while seemingly deceitful and unpredictable, express another aspect of their behavior in a loyal, family-friendly, as well as vengeful manner. Characters who may be prejudiced against each other in the stepfather hierarchy, but are still behind each other and do not sell each other.
Fratricide, which is the main theme of the play, causes the story to unfold in such a way that the character “Hadi” pardons his elder brother for the murder of his elder brother, who is also the leader of the gang, and pardons the death penalty. But this behavioral action is the surface of the story, and the viewer is surprised to find at the end of the play that behind this is the eye-to-eye theorem or the law of counter-parable. The harm done to the victim, Hadi, has led him to punish and settle personal accounts with his brother, and he has agreed to bear all the slanders and slanders for not retaliating against his brother.
Hence, the tension and tempo of the ending of the play, which is accompanied by a quarrel between two brothers, culminates with the sound of the call to prayer and creates a paradoxical atmosphere in the battle between evil and evil.. The play “White Soil” is noteworthy in that it does not separate the influence of family and society on individuals and cuts them both together.. As it raises the question for the viewer that becoming a khan like “Mahmoud” and its consequences becomes more frightening in the family or in the society! And then “Cain, when and why did you kill Abel?” It does not matter.
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