The Escape from sights

Director�fs notes

Various sights generated on the stage
Actors appear on the stage from somewhere. Sights, which they move, wiggle, stir and transform.
They produce sights. They continue to move sights.
A new sight comes into being wherever they move sights.
Then they realize that they themselves are trapped in the "sights" that they have generated.

 

Communication with the sights
After a while, they start communicating with the sights they have generated.
On the stage there is nothing besides the sights they have generated and composed.
They continue to communicate with the sights.
They exchange almost no words with one another. They utter hardly any sounds, either.
This is because they risk becoming part of the sights the instant they exchange words.
Shut into the sights, they continue to stand on the stage, as being who have lost their words and voices, in order to refuse to dissolve into the sights.
Are the sights fake? Or are they fake?

 

Repeated escapes
Next they try to escape from the stage-and thus, from the "sights" they have generated.
For example, they try to destroy the sights.
Whenever they destroy a sights, a new image, a new sight appears.
They repeat the "escape" again and again.
A new sight appears whenever a sight is destroyed.
Many illusions.
Many acts of "escape", which they repeat in near futility.

 

Where is reality?
In order to bring back real, vivid activity after their continuous communication with the sights, they tear up the sights and illusions that they themselves generated.
They do this in order that they themselves may recognize the moment as the true reality that we live in the present.

 

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