Confession
(I`m writting from nowhere)

Choreographer & performer:
Mehdi Farajpour

Poland, June 2008

About the spectacle:

Firstly, I was going to make a performance based on “Gulliver`s travels” during my residence in India. But indeed I started only to think about. Because, there was no idea in my mind about Gulliver. The first image of the performance was shaped when I went to Paris and then in turkey it completed when I moved there and some another part of the performance was shaped in turkey. The performance is made among my voyages and it was difficult to take a good concentration on the subject. Suddenly I found myself as a kind of Gulliver! So,…

I am thankful of Mrs. Agata Swierc because of her kindly helps.

Monologues:

a) I am someone whose name is not Gulliver. So, there weren`t any voyages. Because I was born in destination, where I met too many tiny people in my native country. So, there were no voyages, no ocean, and no ships. But there was fire, the first image that I saw in my life. Because, I was born from the fire. I grew up beside the fire. I am still burning inside of the fire in Lilliputian’s country, where I was born and I am writing from there, “NOWHERE”
I should begin to travel.
I should begin to travel.
I should begin to “TRAVEL”

B) “Qoqnous” is a mythological bird in Iranian culture which starts to circulation around himself at his death time and by the madly movement, he makes a huge amount of fire under his feet. He burns in the fire made by him. But after “Qoqnous” dead, and fire suppressed, one thousand young “Qoqnouses” born from the ashes of him…

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