Cycle 32

On Thursday, October 15, I completed my 31st cycle around the sun. My wife bought us tickets for “Elephants and Ants”, a play based on one of Yaşar Kemal’s books. It was a story about elephants oppressing ants with their brute power, and ants, after years of abuse, rebelling against them. I liked the story very much, but more than that, I liked the practical effects of the play. In the play, the decor was very sparse, almost non-existent. But the cast did many small things that made the story richer: suddenly throwing small pieces of white paper to represent snowfall or “acting” just with their hands to show the busyness of ants. I checked many theatre glossaries to see if there’s a term for this but couldn’t find any. I know it sounds mundane, but it was not, at least for me. On that front, this was probably the most original play I’ve ever seen. About the moving images on screen: We finished watching the first season of True Detective. As I said last week, we have no intention of…