4.48 psychosis- Linn

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Sorry, that last message was from me.

Archive 19-10-2002

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Interesting comments about upside down theatre. In the productionof 4.48 I directed, The audience came through a door into the studio space, had to walk across the stage(through the performers who were lying on it) to reach their seats. When they sat down, they were looking straight at the door they had just entered from, and watched the other audience members coming in, just as they had been watched. The audience became performers, forced to examine themselves. Watching their reactions was brilliant!

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"[...] writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin [...]" Roland Barthes, 1967.

Archive 30-5-2002

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IĀ“m writing an essay on 4.48 and the most lovely and cruel truth about in my view, is that it tells more about the society where itĀ“s played then about the text itself. I have had so much fun dicussing the text with people that do not understand that they are telling me their most delicate secrets! ThatĀ“s Sara Kane for me, a kind of "upsidedown-theatre" where the audience is becoming the actors through their interpretations. So, be careful everybody out there writing about 4.48....................

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