Takes place at ten different sites with fragments of narrative being told at these ten different sites in a totally non-sequential way, obviously. Benefits from being part of a festival with lots of folks who would otherwise ignore it.
A theatrical performance. A text. An always repeated refrain…
Attributed to a faux poet, at first. Since the original piece, I have eliminated the ‘Fardaha’ part, and it’s just The General on the Roof.
Below, a quick explanation.
Here’s the link to the Guernica site where the whole thing can be read:
https://www.guernicamag.com/parsa_11_1_11/
The Generals on the Roof represents the second dekalogue of Canto X of an unfinished epic. The Generals on the Roof constitutes a literary installation, a scriptage, and a performative readation of a poignant episode in the turbulent first months of the Iranian revolution of 1979.