 A Danish artist will march through the streets of Kabul bearing a white flag as part of a theatre project.
| Is he gonna be nekkid? That should go over well. |
Residents of Kabul will be greeted with an unusual sight on 28 February when a Danish man carrying a white flag walks through the streets of the war-torn city. Part of a theatre project to promote democracy, Claus Beck-Nielsen will carry the flag of democracy, a white flag with a hole in the middle, where one would normally find a national symbol.
| Care to discourse on how much democracy's actually been promoted by that project? Have we seen something like a 30 percent increase in democracy since it started? Is it more than that? A little less, maybe? What quantification methods are they using? |
As part of the project, he will walk from the outskirts of Kabul to the National Theatre, a walk, between 10 to 20 km , that will take him onto centre stage where he will become part of the performance.
| Holding a white flag with a hole in the middle, kinda like a big cloth donut. Or maybe more like a white flag with a hole shot through it. |
The play, 'The Parliament', written by Beck-Nielsen, is about an architect who wants to design and build history's first world parliament and introduce world democracy.
| "Based on a true story," no doubt. |
However, the endeavour is not without some danger and Beck-Nielsen was concerned about his safety. 'You never know what people will think. I carried flags with a colleague in Iran and we were constantly arrested by the secret police,' he told national broadcaster DR. 'In Kabul, Taleban and government officials, or even a stray Danish soldier from the Helmand province might think I'm doing something dangerous.'
| More likely they'll think you're stoopid and maybe slap you around for fun. They do that sort of thing in that part of the world. |
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