The Empty Space

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all is for an act of theatre to be engaged.

Of course, it is most of all dirt that gives the roughness its edge; filth and vulgarity are natural, obscenity is joyous: with these the spectacle takes on its socially liberating role, for by nature the popular theatre is anti-authoritarian, anti- traditional, anti-pomp, anti-pretence. This is the theatre of noise, and the theatre of noise is the theatre of applause.

Because if one starts from the premise that a stage is a stage -not a convenient place for the unfolding of a staged novel or a staged poem or a staged lecture or a staged story- then the word that is spoken on this stage exists, or fails to exist, only in relation to the tensions it creates on that stage within the given stage circumstances.

Theatre is always a self-destructive art, and it is always written on the wind.

Aktorius (ir bet koks menininkas) - nelyginant sodas: beprasmiška stengtis išravėti visas piktžoles vieną kartą ir visiems laikams. Piktžolės auga visada, tai natūralu, ir jas reikia rauti - tatai irgi natūralu, ir, be to, būtina.

Today the theatre of doubting, of unease, of trouble, of alarm, seems truer than the theatre with a noble aim.