Fetish Armenia
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An interior space; clean and rigorously spare. To one side an imposing easel. In the space is an old-fashioned wooden camera resting on a tripod. There are uniform pedestals for props that appear later. A thick and plain wooden table with five hard wooden chairs. The table has four sturdy legs. In the darkness an old Gentleman walks into the space and lights a single candle on the table. The Gentleman holds a large framed photograph creased and worn of an Armenian family, circa The family is a mother, a father, two young teen boys and a young daughter.
The heads of the family have been cut out, leaving conspicuous holes. A discreet photo of the head of the youngest son now 19 occupies the hole made from the cut-out head of the father.
In the soft light, the old Gentleman walks slowly toward his audience taking ample time for them to see the portrait he carries. A faint hint of a smile forms on his face and he places the photograph on the easel as he speaks. There was and there was not. He looks hard at the picture, then looks out.
As we find out in the course of the play, the heads in the central family photograph were actually cut out by year-old Aram Tomasian himself after he witnessed the terrible massacre of his entire Armenian family and fled to America.
When the photograph is the object, several years later, of a physical decapitation by Aram himself, his act, which echoes and duplicates the initial murders, takes on the added value of a combined symbolic parricide, matricide and fratricide.