This Time of Isolation" Or About the Forgotten Meanings of Theatre
This Time of Isolation" Or About the Forgotten Meanings of Theatre

Summary/Abstract: The individual’s alienation, the dehumanizing relationship with the technological advancement, the communication crisis and the entire theoretical field targeting the current collective psychosis are now moving into a pragmatism which is brutal, cruel, and immediate. The pandemic concerns all of us at the same extent, each of us is directly affected; the enemy is reproducing itself and is felt physically, therefore consciously, on a global scale. It is a lesson about another way of “being”, we are challenged to survive to ourselves according to the principle which is so well-rooted in the world of the theatre: “play this, is you can!” But, “this time of isolation” gives something to us as well, not only does it take something from us. It is a good time for reflection. The vulnerability of the human being proves to be, at this point, above all, the sole meaning of the search. Deprived of its primordial element, the gathering, it requires a return to the sacred nature of the beginning. The contextual reassessment must begin from the actor. The indefinite suspension of the humankind’s right to social interaction is transformed, therefore, from a sign of clinical death of the theatre, into a thorough working formula. We are not launching this hypothesis with the intention of establishing postulates, but we are rather trying to make an anticipative exercise on the edge of a hole, which if ignored, can turn into an abyss.

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