The Philippine Center of International Theater Institute/Earthsavers UNESCO Dream Center, led by its chairman Vilma Labrador and president Cecile Guidote-Alvarez, shares to the Filipinos the message given by actor John Malkovich on the occasion of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of World Theatre Day.
World Theater Day is celebrated since 1961, one of UNESCO's International Theater Institute's major activities. However, in 2007, a proclamation was signed declaring March 22 to 27 as UNESCO-ITI World Theater Week and calling for its observance through Proclamation 1262.
Jean Cocteau delivered the first World Theatre Day message in 1962, and the list of past World Theatre Day messengers includes Judi Dench, Vaclav Havel, Peter Brook, Wole Soyinka, Eugene Ionesco, Ellen Stewart, Richard Burton, Luchino Visconti, Pablo Neruda, Laurence Olivier and Arthur Miller.
Malkovich is the first American to deliver the said message.
Below is the message Malkovich delivers this year at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris on March 22.
World Theater Day is celebrated since 1961, one of UNESCO's International Theater Institute's major activities. However, in 2007, a proclamation was signed declaring March 22 to 27 as UNESCO-ITI World Theater Week and calling for its observance through Proclamation 1262.
Jean Cocteau delivered the first World Theatre Day message in 1962, and the list of past World Theatre Day messengers includes Judi Dench, Vaclav Havel, Peter Brook, Wole Soyinka, Eugene Ionesco, Ellen Stewart, Richard Burton, Luchino Visconti, Pablo Neruda, Laurence Olivier and Arthur Miller.
Malkovich is the first American to deliver the said message.
Below is the message Malkovich delivers this year at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris on March 22.
I'm honored to have been asked by the International Theatre Institute ITI at UNESCO to give this greeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of World Theatre Day. I will address my brief remarks to my fellow theatre workers, peers and comrades.
“May your work be compelling and original. May it be profound, touching, contemplative, and unique. May it help us to reflect on the question of what it means to be human, and may that reflection be blessed with heart, sincerity, candor, and grace. May you overcome adversity, censorship, poverty and nihilism, as many of you will most certainly be obliged to do.
“May you be blessed with the talent and rigor to teach us about the beating of the human heart in all its complexity, and the humility and curiosity to make it your life's work. And may the best of you — for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments — succeed in framing that most basic of questions, ‘how do we live?' Godspeed.”
-John Malkovich
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