Masterproject Drama: Regie-Schrijven - On the Shore of the Shadow

A ship is sinking in the murderous waters, A world full of lies, full of slaves, Full of doors, full of locks, full of ships, The vile captain disappears in that moment, I wish what I told you were a lie. Look at what man does to man.

Slaves and Locks’s lyrics are written by Irfan Alis / Peyk Band. He wrote this song after a refugee ship sank in the Aegean Sea in 2012.

For a while, I have been imagining all of humanity drifting in the same boat, in a dimension towards infinity. With broken compasses, they are lost and searching for a safe place. With this performance I would like to invite to ask ourselves what is good and what is evil in our universe? Jung didn’t believe you could be a good person until you realised your capacity for evil. He doesn’t mean that you actively engage in evil in the world, but rather that it is important to understand that it is possible. And also, that you can bring it under your control. There is a big difference between someone who is naive and someone who is a good person. A naive person is good because you are like a domesticated house cat; you don’t even have the capacity to be bad. So, there is no morality in that. Morality comes when you are capable of being a monster, but you choose to control it. That is Jung's encounter with the shadow. Jung says, 'The roots of the shadow go all the way down to hell.' What he means is that when you start to understand who you truly are, you can also begin to understand even people like who support genocide.

It is dedicated to the memory of refugees and captains who went down with the ship. R.I.P.