border crossing

piece: one
"A theatrical production is not to be watched
like a picture
for aesthetic pleasure
but is to be tangibly experienced.
I have no artificial canons.
I feel connected to no epoch of the past;
they are unknown to me and of no interest to me.
I only feel that I owe a lot to the epoch
I live in and to the people living next to me.
I believe that in one whole there is enough space
for both barbarism and subtlety, tragedy and coarse laughter,
and that a whole is made up of contrasts
and the greater the contrasts
the more it is tangible
and concrete
and dynamic. (...)"

piece: two
"Cricotage does not eliminate emotional states or strong tension.
Cricotage relies on REALITY.
Liberated from any kind of "plot."
Its fragments, relics and traces
torn by the power of IMAGINATION,
defying all the conventions and the "common" sense
are joined together and strained to such an extent
that at any time they
could rupture
and disintegrate.
This sense of
danger
and imminent
disaster
is an essential feature of Cricotage.
What remains is the problem of the symbol.
Characters, situations, remnants of action
are not symbols.
They are rather EXPLOSIVES,
which cause short-circuits.
They come near the "IMPOSSIBLE" and the "INCONCEIVABLE."
Despite their manifest references to real life meanings, they do not at all
Meet the need for a solution that would follow the everyday logic. It would be
an unpardonable simplification to try and explain them through such meanings.
All the real-life meanings are instantly denied and erased.
In an instant a wedding becomes a funeral ceremony.
A "pre-programmed" message does not exist.