Singer, songwriter Lilit Bleyanwrites.
"Azerbaijan is destroying the historical districts of Stepanakert. In the modern world it has a name: urbicide. Eradication of the urban environment in order to erase traces of the memory and identity of the indigenous people. It destroys the cities that were created by other people, where other people lived with their own separate history. He is tearing it down to say that this is just a territory and it is mine.
35 years ago, a group of people created their theater under a small roof in the center of Yerevan. With their hands, with their imagination, at the expense of their years of life.
Goi was creating his own theater, his separate history in his small, modest space. Today, Go is being told that what you have built is not important, what you have lived is not important, it is just a territory and it belongs to someone else, the Ministry.
Negotiations with Go are still up in the air, there are cases in the courts, there is no final agreement yet, and their posters have already been torn down, their locks have been changed, and the theater is now just a space that acts as a testing ground for others. The same thing happened three years ago. had with the Chamber Music Theater. Their theater was taken away and given as a test site. The actors dispersed to taber theaters, some of them went to Goi to appear outside again today.
And do you know what is happening today in the seized theater building? Have you tried? No.
The building is closed. It is just a space that belongs to someone else. Do I remember the "academic city" project, within the framework of which the historical buildings of the universities want to turn into such spaces without history, without memory. This is the "new normal". the country is just a territory, theaters and universities are just buildings, and we are just taxpayers who are obeyed, and they don't even know who they are obeying."
