![]() ![]() For practically as long as theatre has existed, attempts have been made to use it as an magical means to defy our worldly limitations, gravity being one of them.įor most of human history, this illusion has been created with this use of some variation of what is called a “fly system” (sometimes referred to as a “rigging system”). ![]() Though his use of the term “I want to fly” is clearly meant to be metaphorical, there is a long tradition of theatrical endeavours that have aimed precisely at literalizing statements of this kind. Hence ‘theatre’ for me is ultimately an endeavour to make something impossible possible a rebellion against our inability and our human limitation (Craig, 2). Basically you want to fly, but you’re unable to. It’s an inconcrete and ambiguous answer but so is the theatre. You could give no reasonable answer because you wanted to do that which no reasonable answer could explain in other words, you wanted to fly. Near the beginning of Edward Gordon Craig’s famous treatise, On the Art of the Theatre, he describes the all too familiar dilemma of a young theatre enthusiast trying to explain to their parents why they want to devote their lives to the stage. Theatre Beyond the Ground: Staging a Defiance of Gravity from Aeschylus to Živadinov
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