Dream smothered By Reality

Reading in Qassim Matrood’s monodrama
(Dreams in deteriorate trench)

The war theme scripts in most of Qassim Matrood’s plays takes deep and real impressions because they come from the same generation living during war conditions. That generation knew the tragedy of war, their memories full of its stories and situations, on the level of collective memory, of people who were and still are suffering from war grieves. And on the other side the human anxiety which was represented by refusing this war because it would be considered as attitudes in which humanitarians do not exist.
If (Every determination is negation) as Espinoza says we will see in Qassim matrood’s monodrama, his treating war theme as an attempt to size a space of memory in order to give another point of view that it was impossible to put it forth under that period which all possibilities were pushing war wheels forward and also the ignorance of Iraqi people which affects the suffering within Iraqi society.
From this point it seems that Qassim matrood dedicates this monodrama to his brother to represent a matter of interrelation between personal sorrow, and the suffering of Iraqi society, when they faced the conditions of illogical war which created for us a history of tortures and tragically situations.
(Dreams in deteriorate trench) monodrama starts from a war front scene with the sounds of explosions.
There are two solders at the middle of stage one of them was killed by shelling .This dead solder was a companion and friend in the same trench to our hero, the second solder, so we see the living solder recalling his memories with this man who becomes a corpse. He lost his relations with life and outbursts through humanitarian’s monologue trying to make comparison between the dreams of this corpse when it was a human being, full of hopes and the reality of war.
That war which makes any human just a number, among numbers of people who had been swallowed by wars and lost their dreams while there was limitation between boots and berets.
Here we see the appearance of conflicts between reality, dreams, life, death and existence. They fade away in mystic ordeal which does not have any guilt except that man knows much, and he wanted to get his freedom while the matter of facts shuts all the doors by its stupidity and cruelty.
See this Monologue below:-

- he wanted to pray
- But how is to pray while death hurrying up like raises to God? I said
- But he decided to perform the ritual ablution.
- Wash with clean sand O’ man
- How can I use clean sand while water nears me?
He wanted to pray because it is time to pray,
He took his helmet in order to fill it with water and when he just came out from the trench; his helmet was full of blood. He decided to pray.
(Sound of explosion, after a short silence)
- this is his hand
- that is his leg
- Near you, his wallet and pictures of his children.
- Where is the head? his head disappeared and I heard you crying:-
- His face performed the ritual ablution with blood and he did his praying on its time.
In such conditions, humans used to see death as they used to see anything else. So it doesn’t seem that the matter of indifference as a strange thing, except losing another number of war’s numbers.
Every blood during war likes any other blood (He holds the dust and making a map for country you lay alone in it). But the saddest thing about this tragedy is not exceptional, and not far away from the loneliest solder, who is still alive .We see our hero prophesizes in his coming death ( I will leave and I know my love to you always pushing me to become with you).
This tragedy is representing a true suffering to every one who was temporal to war conditions. It is a humanitarian crying on the faces of criminals who are working always to increase wars flames around the world because the lives of humans are worth less than all fortunes of wars.
The tragic death of our hero at the end of this monodrama is representing his last objections. Crying against exhaustion of human powers in fighting is not worth all that blood for supporting thrones. It has been proven in the sequence of history that they were stupid and going to be failed, but always the price is very expensive and the ordeal was losing human life.

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