Superfluities Redux
A Theatre Surrounds a City:
Vienna's Burgtheater
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Monday, 21 April 2008 OrganumThe play as erotic aphorism. There is an intense need in the
decision to work aphoristically: that there is so much to say, so little
time to say it in, with too few resources. The most economically and
environmentally sound of method, aphorism squeezes each last theatrical,
aural and literary drop from each and every movement, sound and word. (So
it is the most lyrical, too, of forms.) The fragility of time is such that
with each second we can slip from it; millions in the past century have
learned that time can be torn asunder with a knock at the door or a flash
in the sky (millions more in the last, most technological,
democratic, humanistic and enlightened century than in any century before,
a fact which interests no- As with Webern and Celan, each sound, each word expands in all
dimensions of space and time simultaneously. Even the interstitial
silences and stillnesses bear weight. Calling attention to themselves (not
out of the self- Environmentally, too: ambitious design sprawls like a soft, manicured
and unnecessary suburb around a hard city of experience. And ambitious
longer forms rob the audience of time better spent with their lives than
with our art. That we take their money in the name of entertainment is
indicative of our absorption in the culture industry. "Of course,
it's very funny, too": these words the self- In building a theatre that is necessary (necessary because like all
necessary things it is imaginable and does not yet exist), I don't need a
space of more than 50 seats, nor more than a few performers, nor the run
of more than a half- Other material: Organum II (in progress) "95 Sentences About Theatre" (Prolegomena) Posted in /Organum |