A Plastic Theatre
In the end there is not nothing. In the end there is endless everything.
In the end there is not nothing. In the end there is endless everything.
"In Teheran I can drive until the foot of the mountain
What if the world is a room; what if the room is as large as the world?
The stage directions here describe the future, what will come to pass, and what has already passed for these characters between the time of the play’s setting and the time of the play’s writing.
The auteur at the heart of her text yearns to close the gap between the art object and herself, the art star. At least, she wants the appearance of having forsaken aesthetic detachment. And we’re with her.
Scenography is an open-ended concept, ‘… a sensory as well as an intellectual experience, emotional as well as rational.’[1] […]
This was a long way from the contained theatre of a Chekhov play presented over a couple of hours and yet it was the same play. Instead, the audience was living with the characters in that house.
4. something durational
A host of speculative playlets, skirting genres from fantasy to sci-fi, utopia to dystopia, alternative history to the end of history.
Gradually, the audience realizes that the rocks are this canyon's performers. It is the slowest performance to which this audience has ever borne witness.