Peace is a buried, airless room, a white coffin, after-life. part - Peace - is seen as artificial and ultimately lifeless, an unreal object/space disconnected from humanity and presented as the sterile clinical interior of polished surfaces and modernist furniture. War is organic, all sound and fury - a boiling pot of life force.ģ.
War is covered in snow, mist and oceanic salt.
part - War - is envisaged as the pure state of nature : a vast and sublime empty plain, a universal battlefield, its dark soil in stark contrast with the blazing sky and wide horizon. Aksan, honor the prolific career of a foremost scholar of the Ottoman Empire. The tsarist Russian grandeur is glimpsed in the fluorescent tube chandeliers (inspired by the metro stations of the later Soviet cities) which dilate and contract, rise and descend upon the stage like great space-ships of collective doom, signaling the inevitable fate of society whose white curtain walls are already dipped to the knees in dirt.Ģ. The articles compiled in Ottoman War & Peace. part - Unrest - represents the fragile limbo of social and family affairs unravelling in the prospect of the next war. The staging concept for the famous Tolstoy's novel was to divide the story into three distinctive parts - UNREST, WAR and PEACE - and to communicate their essential difference both visually and spatially.ġ. Writer: Leo Tolstoy Director: Tomaž Pandur
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