a call for change. a request for making theatre end. theatre as an unsettled environment for performing. the disruption of the action, actions that are disruptive. like waiting. simply waiting.
like the request long ago to open the windows and to keep them open. to let some real world in. the contemporary in 2 senses - what is happening today and the way it could have happened today.
the technical availability of a view on a world with nature as it presents itself outside the building. bringing a representation with 6 mere lights. as a fake imitation and reductionalist colour palette. while the computer has smartly already taken out all change to the image, by wind people plants sunlight. inertia in a short endless series of memory plays. a flashback of non-activity.
the unnoticeable intensity changes. as support a dense drone. a short series of fade-outs. eliminate identification of tone and pitch. on the rhythm of the absent movement. its non-presence in repetition.
a last theatre show. the implosion of performance. a blanking out of the individual. the erasure of the virtuoso. the invisibility of meaning attached to any of his-her actions. an accent on that it did not happen. time's duration (always our bodies waiting) stretching and all and everything is slowing down.
a fight to deal with their presence in the room. the costs of the beloved objects. the energy of controlling it all. their resistence against standing still, and watching, waiting. the seeds of the primordial performance together/alone: to stand up and be noticed by showing a skill, an expressed thought, and movement, if only for the eyes.
it is not that all has been said already or done. no no. but whatever is tried cannot deviate from the historical line that produced that same theatre. it could all have been done potentially.
so better to fade with the light. the darker the surrounding is the more vague any activity becomes. the less we perceive the less we can do. the lights can all be monotonous blue and shaky. the frequencies become blurred and have a long deep slide away from the fixed points (where they began). the inability to cope with darkness and similarly low pitches.
the performers can always continue. even up in front they will be seen against an inactive background: the main actor paralyzed. that is how to close it down. 7 days to produce an anecdote. waiting. for the last theatre show ever. then clean up and go home.