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L. TER-PETROSYAN HAS NO ROLE IN THIS THEATRE, HENRIK IGITYAN FINDS
Anahit Yesayan
"Hayots Ashkharh" Daily Newspaper
6 Nov 07
Armenia
Recently, the media supporting the Armenian pan-National Movement
has been publicizing a new title-page where 5-6 representatives of
intelligentsia address a lyrical letter to ex-President Ter-Petrosyan
with the rhyme "Return, oh, return!". How to account for that kind
of heartfelt correspondence?
"The Russians have the word 'обиж ;& #xD0;µÐ½Ð½Ð¸&#x D0;º' (meaning
offended). These are people who becoome extremely pretensions upon
remaining unnoticed since they are convinced that they deserve more
than they have received, more than they have been given. These are
mainly people who are not self-satisfied with their deeds and their
profession.
If a director currently works on a performance he wants, he cannot be
offended. If he has been forbidden, he may become offended, because
he has no arena. If I judge by my example, never in my life have I
been in better conditions as an artist than at present.
There are offended people whom I can understand. Try to seize a piece
of bone out of the mouth of a hungry dog. It will tousle you. No
matter that you may be the master who has kept and raised it. So,
in this case we are dealing with the offended person complex."
"No sooner had the stage nominations begun, there were
self-nominations, and the future candidates of presidency were
already known."
"How do our politicians behave? I can be objective, because I have no
ambitions, neither do I want to be elected or to receive a post; I want
to live in my country peacefully and be engaged in my profession. I
can look upon our political arena as an observer. Our politicians
(although the world politician sounds too high in this case; this
is a word characteristic to Churchill, Roosevelt, and even Stalin)
behave in such a way as if they are now living in Switzerland and
neither have a sense of danger nor seem to be concerned.
But if they do not have those feelings, it doesn't mean there is
no danger. We ourselves saw Beirut burned, with nobody raising a
protest. At the end, only after everything was smashed to smithereens,
and the people suffered great losses, did they start pronouncing
speeches supporting them.
All this may happen to us some day.
Let's now touch upon the phenomenon of L. Ter-Petrosyan. If we use the
theatrical language and view the current developments as a performance,
I will say that I don't find any role for L. Ter -Petorsyan in that
performance. He has no role in this theatre. Or, using the language of
sports, if we admit that he used to be a brilliant player and a good
attacker on the football ground but hasn't played for several years
running, i.e. this man is not 'in good shape', how is he supposed
to play?
In all this period he hasn't taken part in either the positive or
the negative developments of the country. He has written a book
sitting at home; good for him, because he's a scholar. What I don't
understand is the hue-and-cry around his name. Have we all become
idiots? What happened?
There are politicians who remind of lemonade run out of gas. The
lemonade is already run out of gas, and it no longer tastes good.
--Boundary_(ID_TJmGTQ+rpM1QpJSw+Wni8Q)--
Anahit Yesayan
"Hayots Ashkharh" Daily Newspaper
6 Nov 07
Armenia
Recently, the media supporting the Armenian pan-National Movement
has been publicizing a new title-page where 5-6 representatives of
intelligentsia address a lyrical letter to ex-President Ter-Petrosyan
with the rhyme "Return, oh, return!". How to account for that kind
of heartfelt correspondence?
"The Russians have the word 'обиж ;& #xD0;µÐ½Ð½Ð¸&#x D0;º' (meaning
offended). These are people who becoome extremely pretensions upon
remaining unnoticed since they are convinced that they deserve more
than they have received, more than they have been given. These are
mainly people who are not self-satisfied with their deeds and their
profession.
If a director currently works on a performance he wants, he cannot be
offended. If he has been forbidden, he may become offended, because
he has no arena. If I judge by my example, never in my life have I
been in better conditions as an artist than at present.
There are offended people whom I can understand. Try to seize a piece
of bone out of the mouth of a hungry dog. It will tousle you. No
matter that you may be the master who has kept and raised it. So,
in this case we are dealing with the offended person complex."
"No sooner had the stage nominations begun, there were
self-nominations, and the future candidates of presidency were
already known."
"How do our politicians behave? I can be objective, because I have no
ambitions, neither do I want to be elected or to receive a post; I want
to live in my country peacefully and be engaged in my profession. I
can look upon our political arena as an observer. Our politicians
(although the world politician sounds too high in this case; this
is a word characteristic to Churchill, Roosevelt, and even Stalin)
behave in such a way as if they are now living in Switzerland and
neither have a sense of danger nor seem to be concerned.
But if they do not have those feelings, it doesn't mean there is
no danger. We ourselves saw Beirut burned, with nobody raising a
protest. At the end, only after everything was smashed to smithereens,
and the people suffered great losses, did they start pronouncing
speeches supporting them.
All this may happen to us some day.
Let's now touch upon the phenomenon of L. Ter-Petrosyan. If we use the
theatrical language and view the current developments as a performance,
I will say that I don't find any role for L. Ter -Petorsyan in that
performance. He has no role in this theatre. Or, using the language of
sports, if we admit that he used to be a brilliant player and a good
attacker on the football ground but hasn't played for several years
running, i.e. this man is not 'in good shape', how is he supposed
to play?
In all this period he hasn't taken part in either the positive or
the negative developments of the country. He has written a book
sitting at home; good for him, because he's a scholar. What I don't
understand is the hue-and-cry around his name. Have we all become
idiots? What happened?
There are politicians who remind of lemonade run out of gas. The
lemonade is already run out of gas, and it no longer tastes good.
--Boundary_(ID_TJmGTQ+rpM1QpJSw+Wni8Q)--