“We needed to scratch the injuries as a result of that's the one manner we are able to heal them” – What the writer of the dramatized monologues “Agno Menos: 50 Years of Unseen Monologues” stated
The ladies have been victimized in 1974 and continued to be victimized, says Katerina Nikolaou, writer of the dramatized monologues “Agno Menos: 50 Years of Unknown Monologues”, which will likely be offered in Nicosia on the event of the fiftieth anniversary of the tragedy, in her interview with KYPE 1974.
As she says, ladies “grew to become a device of politics to serve the official narrative.” He additionally mentions that “there are a lot of individuals who have had a tough time in these fifty years, who needed to begin from scratch and even stayed at zero. We should know that they exist.”
Responding to a comment by KYPE that most of the tales of the ladies who have been victims of the 1974 tragedy remained at midnight for a few years, Katerina Nikolaou notes that “if their tales remained at midnight it’s a political situation”, including that “somebody or some they determined that our reminiscence must be selective”.
On the similar time, he clarifies that the present “The Unforgotten” is a piece that doesn’t stand in political choices or moments in time however goes by way of all of the landmarks of the fifty years that adopted, illuminating the tales of ladies after their victimization.
Answering one other query, Ms. Nikolaou emphasizes that “in conflict there are not any better or lesser victims. Victims are those that misplaced their lives and people they left behind. Those that misplaced the suitable to personal property. The ladies who’re absent from the selections and the negotiation desk. All these whose human rights have been violated.” There isn’t a gradation within the ache of conflict, within the ache of loss, he says.
Invited by KYPE to clarify the selection of the phrase “pure males” because the title for her work, the writer speaks of “a criticism, an everlasting lamentation, expressed with sincerity and honesty by the ladies, who have been victims in 1974 and continued to be victimized, who grew to become a device of politics to serve the official narrative”. As he says, “they wore black garments and images, they grew to become symbols, the Lady of Cyprus, we noticed them within the images, in brochures, we noticed them in protests, in memorials”.
“At each occasion, 12 months after 12 months, the group dwindled, the anger subsided, however they have been current like little troopers on responsibility,” says Katerina Nikolaou, stating that “life moved on, life doesn't wait, it was within the curiosity of the nation, normalization and progress”. Nonetheless, she underlines, some victims got the burden of reminiscence, including that her personal technology remembers some ladies who grew to become heroes. “We noticed them on the information. What occurred”, he wonders.
“So behind the criticism there may be anger. They need to a minimum of specific their criticism, to get the ache out of themselves, since their wounds are nonetheless open,” he explains.
Referring to the challenges she encountered whereas writing the play, Katerina Nikolaou tells KYPE that she wished very a lot to finish the work, to shut the tales in a ebook, in a efficiency and switch the web page. “However with the intention to try this, I needed to convey all that ache again to thoughts each day. I used to be studying new data, assembly victims who lived by way of horrible crimes, who to this present day are suffocating their justice. That was the most important problem,” he emphasizes.
Then, he provides, “I needed to persuade that in fifty years it was not sufficient to recycle our black and white images. We needed to scratch the injuries as a result of that's the one manner we are able to heal them.”
Answering one other query, Katerina Nikolaou notes that she would really like those that attend the present “to know, to be told concerning the tales of the ''Unknown''”, indicating that “you will need to transfer ahead and progress realizing, not blindly, not in ignorance.”
“The official narrative of the Cypriot is extraordinarily vital, however it’s tiring, which is why we see that fewer and fewer individuals are engaged,” the writer emphasizes. “Personally, it hurts me when somebody says that the Cyprus drawback is closed or solved. There are a lot of individuals who have had a tough time these fifty years, who needed to begin from scratch and even stayed at zero. Now we have to know that they exist,” he factors out, quoting what one of many actresses who stars within the 1974 monologue of the girl in a rush says: “We don't need a monument. We wish reminiscence.”
The play “The Unknown”, directed by Marios Ioannou, will likely be offered from October 11 to 13 at Movie And many others. Artistic Area, in Nicosia. The actors Marina Makri, Katerina Campanelli, Dimitra Hatzigianni, Anna Farmaka and Penny Foiniri carry out so as of look.
Supply: KYPE
