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WHEN A RAINBOW IS BLACK.
The
performance tells three stories of physical and sexual assault that
happen to homosexual people. However, the performance looks at these
experiences from family and social point of view. It is an episodic
performance that only focuses on the traumatic part of the story and
the social perception.
Personally,
the process of directing WHEN A RAINBOW IS BLACK
has been hard and rough, every day I had to come up with solution,
decision and most of all visualizing the heavy material that I had
written in the script, in which one of the story is my own
experience.
Working
with professional actors, without knowing them beforehand, is
challenging, but the key is to build trust between the director and
the actors. As a director, I must assure the actors that I’m there
for them and I won’t put them in danger. I have to let them know
that they can rely on me when something happens.
All
sorts of feelings come to me during the rehearsal period, which is
one month. There are those days where I felt that I can’t carry on
with this process but then in the next day you go to the rehearsal
and you realize that everything fits together.
The work stays inside you wherever you go, the
mind does not rest at all. The hunger and lust of the mind to
constantly bring up new solutions, ideas, and decisions keep on going
and overwhelming. However, this process with all its’ heaviness,
roughness, and tiredness comes on a form of the most wonderful
feeling, the born of the final coherent project on the premiere day.
Here
are links about the project in Finnish media.
Article
2pages in aamulehti:
http://www.aamulehti.fi/kulttuuri/moe-mustafa-ohjaa-telakalla-tositarinoita-homojen-kohtaamasta-vakivallasta-myos-itse-kokemastaan-24394094/
Video
interview:
http://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9550864
Critic
after the premiere
:http://www.aamulehti.fi/kulttuuri/ai-sinutko-raiskattiin-mitas-menit-sellaiseen-paikkaan-oma-vikasi-24398114/
Text & image: Moe Mustafa 2017
