THE CHRONIC LIFE AND THE “READING” PARADOX
THE CHRONIC LIFE AND THE “READING” PARADOX

Summary/Abstract: Odin Teatret’s Chronic Life, performed in 2012 in Cluj, is linked within me to the frustration and to the acute feeling I have missed the point Eugenio Barba and the actors tried to convey. The long-expected production perturbed me. After a performance that had lasted only one hour – which, subjectively speaking, I thought (was) longer – I did not talk to anyone about what I had seen, because I was feeling somewhat guilty. I had not understood anything, unable to “read” the story. I found myself out of my depth, the puzzled target of an actual assault of visual, auditory and tactile images which, to this day, remain unsolved in my mind, a tight knot.

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