Seed Soltanpour, Waiting for Godot by Sirus Qasem Seif
The first scene: Dariush's voice comes out, singing "The smell of wheat is mine, everything I have is yours...." And at the same time, the curtain slowly opens and we see an "intellectual" sitting on a chair in the middle of the stage with glasses on his eyes and probably a tie or bow tie around his neck and a cigarette or pipe on his lips, and he says to us, the "audience":
( In those days when we gathered at the Firouz Cafe, the generation before us had their chairs and we, the teenagers, had our ring. On Mondays, Jalal Al-Ahmad would connect the two rings and.
The light of the intellectual's position goes out.
The light of the intellectual's position turns on.
The intellectual has disappeared and in his place, the director of the play appears, comes to the front of the stage and says to the audience:
( Dear audience, I greet you. I, the director of this play I am. The play you are watching tonight is "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett. Suddenly, Saeed Soltanpour stands up from his seat in the audience and shouts to the director: (Mr. Director! In this social chaos, there is no time for the theater of the absurd in Iran!).
A terrible silence reigns in the hall, which lasts, according to some, for a few historical moments, and according to some, for a few solar and lunar years, and in those few moments or years, the East and the West, or according to some, Western democracy and the dictatorship of the proletariat, fight each other with ice swords, made by the North and South Poles, and in the crack of those same swords, from a very, very far away, the whisper of the call to prayer reaches the ears, gradually rising higher and higher, and then:
All together and shouting,
Long live,
Death to you,
The sound of gunfire Ha,
Iran Iran Iran, a barrage of machine guns,
The Shah is gone,
Blessed are the springs.
Suddenly, a young man with a gun in his hand jumps into the stage from behind the scenes!
As the young man with a gun in his hand enters the stage, the director of the play "Waiting for Godot" leaps into the audience with a long leap and sits on a chair where Saeed Soltanpour is sitting a few seats away.
At that moment, the young man with a gun in his hand, who has now reached the front of the stage, points his gun at the audience and shouts: (The time has passed when you had the last word! The revolution has happened and now it is our turn to speak. Don't let me, you are on the side with this gun! )
The audience cheers and claps and the curtain closes.
Second scene:
With the song "Blessed are the springs", the closed curtain opens.
The stage, with the walls of "Of course" Invisible!" is divided into three unequal parts:
In the middle part, which has allocated the most space, some people are rehearsing the Ta'ziyeh of "Mukhtar Thaqafi", who is preparing to avenge the blood of Imam Hussein (AS) from his murderers.
On the left side of the stage, Saeed Soltanpour is rehearsing the street play "Abbas Agha Kargar Iran National".
On the right side of the stage, which has allocated the least space, the director of the play "Waiting for Godou" before the revolution is now rehearsing a play called "Godou Came" when... suddenly, one of his actors stops playing and turns to the director and shouts: (Why are you grinning?! Why are you making fun of me?! Do you even know what it is?! I don't want to act the way you want me to! What does being a director mean anyway?! You're a pro, you're for yourself! Those times are over, my dear! Now, the revolution has happened and Besides, you generals, your hats don't have wool. Do you understand?!).
The director grins and says: (If we fall off the horse, we haven't fallen off the original, my dear! Go! Go! Apparently, you're also one of those zero kilometers after the revolution that haven't been picked yet, you want to become a raisin. No, my dear! Go now and when you're well-sealed, come and talk to each other. Go!).
Actor: (Now I'll show you who you're on!) .
The actor goes to the middle of the stage and turns to the director of "Mukhtar Thaqafi's Ta'ziyeh" and says: (Haji Agha! This tyrant has gone too far! Hey, he's giving orders and telling me this and that! As Makhmalbaf's brother said...).
Haji Agha places his right index finger on the tip of his nose and says, "Hiss! Hiss!" And at the same time, He takes a step towards the actor and director of the play "Godot Comes" and says in a low voice: (Please, brother! Please speak a little more slowly, because my actors are relaxing and consoling!). The director of the play "Godot Comes" laughs when Haji Agha pronounces the English words "relaxing and consoling" with a thick Arabic accent. The actor seizes the opportunity and immediately approaches Haji Agha and says in his ear, so that the director of Godot Comes does not hear: (Do you see, Haji Agha?! The guy is laughing at us! He is making fun of us! Do you even know what the point of this play this guy is making is?! The point is that this guy is cheating, Haji Agha! He is making fun of the Imam! He is making fun of Islam! Godot Comes, What does it mean?! That means God has come, Hajj Agha! He is blaspheming. Hajj Agha is a disbeliever!).
Saeed Sultanpour, who is standing in the other corner, close to Hajj Agha, and has his ears pricked up to hear the actor's words, draws himself towards them and with a smile on his lips, addresses the actor and says: (Is there really a God who comes or doesn't come?!).
A storm breaks out.
Lightning flashes.
Thunder roars.
Eclipse.
Eclipse.
Dust.
Darkness.
The sound of machine gun fire.
Heavy silence.
The stage slowly lights up.
Saeed Sultanpour, covered in blood, is tied to a pole with a rope.
The light goes out of the stage.
The curtain closes.
