Friday, 13 June 2014



Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian's portrait by Mariusz Kaldowski, Poland's great Portraitist, realised from a live sitting. Professor Pilikian's Portrait is a most original conception ... and perhaps Kadowski's masterpiece. The Artist has placed the Professor's full frontal image, within his eagle-visaged (denoting an archetypal Armenian!) profile. 


The original is an oil-painting, and can be viewed by the following Internet link:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian has been a legendary Director of classical Greek Drama in Britain in the 1970's, while also keeping at all times his academic hat on. His scientific theories of Human Origins and evolution of culture in the mountainous landscape of the Armenian Highlands (not on the African Savannah flatlands as Darwinists have it mistakenly), and his identification of Shakespeare's Mistress (of the Sonnets) as Black African is revolutionising several social science disciplines at once.
 
 
 
 
 
Pilikian's "genius" was acknowledged by leading British experts in times when such a label was rarely used, if at all ...
 
 
 
{Britain's famous experts on Pilikian's work} :
 
 
 
Positively revolutionary ... a man of original genius - Hugh Cruttwell, Principal - RADA, 2 June 1972
 
 
A strong directorial hand - Michael Billington, The Times, 4 October 1968
 
 
A young director with two indispensable classical attributes of irreverence and water-diviner's instinct for the springs of drama - Irving Wardle, The Times,
2 November 1971
 
 
One of Britain's most original directors .. who never produces anything that is dull or conventional - Martin Esslin, Plays and Players, December 1976
 
 
A theatrical innovator - The Times, 27 October 1977
 
 
A cult figure - Alan Brien, Punch, 20 February 1980
 
 
Pilikian is a man of immense culture and learning .. great creative gifts .. very impressive achievements. His deep knowledge of literature and the arts, combined with his critical well-informed appreciation of the social sciences, make him pre-eminently qualified to produce work of the first quality and greatest importance - Professor C. R. Badcock, author of pioneering books in the Social Sciences.
 
 
 
 
 

Thursday, 12 June 2014








PROFESSOR HOVHANNESS I. PILIKIAN, B.A. in Eng. Lit. (American Uni of Beirut),

B.Sc. Hons. in Psych. (Open Uni), M.A. in Soc. Anth. (Sch of Oriental & African Studies),

Gulbenkian Foundation Scholar in Econ. (LSE) (London Uni),

D.A.A.D -Fellow (Uni of Munich), D.G.G.B.,

Dip. Th. Pr. (RADA), Cert. Hum. (Open),

Adamian Award (Ministry of Culture – Armenian SSR), sometime Fellow R.A.I.

 

Contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica

 
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Biographical Notes collected by Mrs Phaedra Behrent


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Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian is a distinguished British Armenian Polymath: Theatre-director, Social Scientist (with University Degrees in Psychology, English Literature, and Anthropology), Poet, Composer, Sculptor, Academic, Historian, Linguist, and Author of path-breaking books on Classical Japanese Theatre, and Armenian Cinema.


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       Sometime Fellow of Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, a Life-member of the Convocation of the University of London, Past  member of the First Academic Board of the City Literary Institute – the premier institution of Adult Learning in London, a Consultant to the annual International Festival of Guitar Music in Charlton Kings/Colchester (Britain), Professor Pilikian was commissioned by the Encyclopaedia Britannica to write the Entry on Max Reinhardt, one of the greatest German theatre-directors of History.


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Pilikian has contributed important articles to DRAMA, and THEATRE QUARTERLY.
 

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A legendary theatre-director of classical Greek plays, Pilikian’s work on Classical Greek Drama during the 1970-80 was acknowledged as being entirely original, totally innovative, and absolutely pioneering in the contemporary history of British theatre.  It created a fashion for others to imitate. 
 

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Pilikian has directed over 40 theatre-productions, some cast with
all-stars including Diana Dors, Derek Jacobi, Keith Michell, Yvonne Mitchell, Alfred Marks, Richard Greene, Derren Nesbitt, Sarah Badel, Noel Howlett, Howard Lang, Willoughby Goddard, Reg Lye, Tony Sympson, Maxwell Shaw.. 
 

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Two of the world’s greatest set-designers, Josef Svoboda, and Ralph Koltai, have designed his productions (the latter – three times!).



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One of Pilikian’s actors, Stephen Shepphard – a graduate of RADA – wrote a thriller titled MONTE CARLO (later turned into a TV series by the Hollywood Superstar Ms Joan Collins), where “Hovhanness Pilikian” is the main James-Bond Style hero saving lives during the Second World War, as Pilikian himself was the child of survivors of the attempted genocide of the Armenians perpetrated by the Young Turk regime of the Ottoman Empire in 1915, which is of course true to the case of Professor Pilikian’s own family-history. 
 

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Pilikian’s production (for the Athenian producer Emmanuel Gounalakis) in London’s West End (Shaw Theatre) of Shakespeare’s HAMLET was of equal weight and revolutionary innovations, this time in Shakespeare studies, which inspired the famous Israeli intellectual and fellow theatre-director Oded Be’eri to make a documentary film about it (with a double premiere in 2001, first in the Cinematheque of Tel Aviv, then in the Jerusalem Cinematheque, under the auspices of His Most Reverend Beatitude, Archbishop Torkom Manoukian, the Patriarch of Jerusalem Armenians, one of the Three Keepers of the Holy places).
 

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Over two decades ago, Pilikian had launched in London simultaneously two very unique theatre companies - the FIRST all-black British theatre company called Cervantes Players, and the FIRST exclusively Mask-theatre Company (called Hana-no), not only the first of their kind in Britain, but also in Europe.

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Over two decades ago, Pilikian presented for and at the National Film Theatre in London, the First ever season of Armenian cinema, followed by many others, over the years in Paris, New York, and Montreal.
 

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Pilikian has directed two important feature length documentaries (for Gounalakis Productions); A King of Saudi Arabia, the story (with an extended interview) of Dr. Sahmsuddin Al-Fasi, the world leader of the Sufis, and The New Supremes, reconstituted by the Superstar Mary Wilson, for their first appearance in London.


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An eleven-language man (including Classical Armenian, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, modern German, French, and some Russian and Chinese!) Pilikian has directed Classical Greek Drama and Shakespeare, in Britain at the Greenwich Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Yvonne Arnaud theatre etc., in Iceland at the National Theatre, in Slovenia at the National Theatre, in the USA at the MacArtur Theatre of the world-famous University of Princeton.


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Pilikian has lectured at the Dutch Centre of Drama (where all the Drama teachers of Holland are trained), Princeton University (USA), The State University of Yerevan, The Institute of Arts, The Literary Institute, the Institute of Linguistics (in Armenia), Central School of Art and Design, the Slade School of Fine Arts (University of London), The City Literary Institute, at the London Headquarters of the Theosophical Society, RILKO (Research Into Lost Knowledge), The London Earth Mysteries etc.

 

Pilikian was invited to deliver the Millennial Lecture (2000) for
The Swedenborg Society in London.
 

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Pilikian has a Bachelor of Arts in English Studies (American University of Beirut), Bachelor of Sciences (Honours) in Psychology (Open University), a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology (School of Oriental and African Studies), was a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholar (London School of Economics), Fellow of Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst at the University of Munich (Germany), Graduated first of a first ever course in Britain of Theatre-Directing at the world-famous Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts of London, became the youngest ever recipient of a Soviet State Prize, the Petross Adamian Award for Achievement in the Theatre-Arts, in the gift of the Ministry of Culture of the Soviet Armenian Republic.
 

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Pilikian has a considerable weighty intellectual presence on the Internet – a contributing Editor of the multi-lingual Nor Khosq (=New Word, an Armenian website hailing from Germany), researching and tackling some of the greatest puzzles of ancient history and modern science:
 

(1)           What is the first piece of land that appears on the waters of this planet? 
 

A question no scientist has posed hitherto, Isaac Newton having established Gravity, Darwin – the origin of species, and Einstein – the interchange of Matter into Energy.
 

(2)           A study of the origins of the HAI, the First people,
 

(3)           A study of Power-obsession as the root of all human and social action (including Evil), and
 

(4)           A Photon (Quantum) Theory of Everything into

Nothing into Everything. 

 
 

Ideas that Enlighten and Change Your Mind

 
 

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Pilikian’s views “on a range of topical issues” were recently sought in a pan European survey of leading figures in Europe conducted by Ipsos UK Ltd.
 

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Part old-fashioned Patriarch, Pilikian has also produced six children (three daughters, three sons) from two marriages.

 

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Pilikian has an entry in The International Who’s Who, the world’s number one Biographical Dictionary.

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Here is what BlogEsxplosion.com confirmed about Professor Pilikian’s very first website containing some of his early work;
 


                                                    

Intellectually exciting, radical, provocative;

Innovative ideas to help you understand

World-historical events past and present.”

             

 
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In response to Professor Pilikian's internet article 'A Papasian Production that makes you proud of being an Armenian'.
 
 
 
When there are geniuses like (Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian), I do not think genocidal truths can be concealed for ever. My sole wish is to have had a thousand strong intellectual warriors like the Professor all over the world, to fight actively the lies and misrepresentations of the so-called modern, democratic nations in Europe and North America, who are still protecting Evil manifestations.
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Dikran VorpĂ©rian, tenor – star of the Yerevan Soviet Armenian State Opera.     
 

 
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Other Blogs by Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian; 
 

                             http://exciting-sculptures-by-pilikian.blogspot.com/

 
                             http://profpilikian-on-life-in-britain-today.blogspot.com/

 
                             http://godsavehugochavez.blogspot..com/

 
                             http://exceptional-films.blogspot.com/

 
                             http://exceptional-music-concerts.blogspot.com/

 
                             http://narrative-poems-by-pilikian.blogspot.com/








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Some further Links on the Internet ;


An important expose of the World's greatest Financial fraud,
perpetrated by the governments of China, Russia and America ... victimizing an innocent writer from Sweden - George Karimi -

Professor H.I Pilikian has produced two stylistically very different versions of it [as if written by two different authors ...] ;

one mild, intended for the delicate British tastes,

http://www8.open.ac.uk/platform/blogs/society-matters/how-armenian-in-china-ended-political-prisoner-in-swedish-prison


The other, in the rougher English literary tradition of unsparing  Dickensian satire...

 http://massispost.com/archives/4282


The World's Greatest Scientific Secrets Revealed - A complete New History of Life on this Planet Earth, the Descent of Man, His creation of Language and Culture


Text-summary on  ;  




Ideas that Enlighten and Change Your Mind

* On YouTube, watch the Professor's 3 short films on Climate Change and leave a Comment if you can be bothered

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xMkq29qjAI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEYrUFQWDMI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpqRo-VmibQ

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Scientific Method and Ancient Esoteric Knowledge

In the below short videos Prof. Hovhanness I. Pilikian presents the esoteric knowledge behind the 'tales' passed on to mankind over thousands of years. The scientific method of the ancient Greeks (Heraclitus for one) to modern historical research is discussed, in addition to an appreciation of the Bible as a historical document that contains deep secrets. "Noah's flood serves an important warning to mankind," maintains Prof. Pilikian.--Editor.

Click on the below links to view the series.


http://norkhosq.net/2014/04/1234-2/