“Never mind the fairy tales” / “Не заморачивайся сказками” – Brest, Belarus

Our classic “Never mind the fairy tales” / “Не заморачивайся сказками” with five Belarusian men in Brest, Belarus, at 14:00 September 14th, 2013. 60 minutes in the earth listening to the radio repeatedly screaming about Everything Turning Out Just Like This – Never mind the fairy tales … Part of the Belaya Vezha International Theatre Festival.

“Все на свете приходящее и уходящее. А все, о чем ты мечтаешь, у тебя уже есть. Так не заморачивайся сказками. Не стоит заблуждаться. Ты думаешь, что то, о чем ты мечтаешь, с тобой произойдет? Успокойся. Оно уже произошло!”

or roughly

”This is all there is, this what you got, is all there is, never mind the fairy-tales; THIS IS IT!     It isn’t going to work out because it already worked out, THIS is the way it worked out!”

The tableaux-vivant Never Mind The Fairy Tales embodies a feeling of being (stuck) exactly where we are in our here-and-now present, right here and right now.

The explanations, justifications, rationalizations, vindications, defenses, arguments, apologies: these are the ”fairy tales” we tell ourselves about how and why we are in the situation we are in today.

The piece can be viewed existentially on a purely private level, but also interpreted in a historical/political context, like it’s been when performed in Poland 1993, two years after the end of a 45 year long communist dictatorship, or in Belarus 2013, when three of the participants were dissidents who had spent time in jail for their political views.

The text, sounding from the old radio like a propagandistic transmission, is borrowed from an american self-realization weekend seminar from the 1980ies. It is from the moment in the seminar when you are, in a quasi-buddhist fashion, supposed to look at yourself without lying of self-deception.

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