Anna

Karolina Pavlova in her The Double Life creates a complicated microcosm of intertwined relationships between her characters. However, the roles of the characters are almost ideal (in Platonic sense) and in many aspects they resemble the roles that states play on the international arena. We see the "society" – a faceless, non-material, invisible mass which, nevertheless, has a lot of collective power; a "leader/monarch," a nominal (decorative) leader/monarch, a "gray cardinal," serving analogies for developed and developing states, as well as the third world states. I use Naoko Shimazo's framework of political theater in order to demonstrate the resemblance between Karolina Pavlova's characters and different categories of states and interstate relations. Particular characters represent certain states, and a hypothetical international event with their participation is constructed using scenes from The Double Life, and incorporating those scenes into the politico-historic event that actually happened.

The file attached below represents a visual project that combines images with a stenogram into a "dimplomatic play," somewhat analogous to sessions at the United Nations. Text-interventions of the narrator should be imagined as background voice reading the text.