Then thélo

Then thèlo, which means in Greek I do not want, is the expression of the refusal of violence. The play, built on the Greek translation of the famous Psalm 137 (136) – On the banks of the rivers of Babylon, we were sitting and crying while remembering Zion …. is a denunciation of human madness.
If it is one of the most beautiful songs of exile – how would we sing the Lord’s songs on a foreign land? – time and time again set to music, the text includes harsh and warlike words: Shave, shave to its foundations! Daughter of Babel, the devastated, happy that makes you the same, the harm you did to us! / Happy who seizes your children, and crushes them on the rock!
The Lebanese composer remembers his own childhood, then in 2006 images that crossed the planet where we saw boys and girls kissing shells before they were projected towards their targets.

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