But the world has always had elements of the Theatre of the Absurd, which makes artistic efforts to “reconcile” it seem rather absurd. At the heart of the crisis lies our striving to construct an intellectual superstructure with which the people of each era attempt to resolve the contradictions inherent in human fate. Theatre allows us to experience things sensually – in Gorky‘s “Summerfolk” we can see our current state of happily coquettish nihilism (in art as well as in public life). It makes no difference whether it is about Russia, Georgia, Montenegro or one of the other societies embraced by the EU… Out of the banality that surrounds us, we must seek a theatre that we can use for our intellectual defense, that will help us expose the paradoxes in our petty lives, our dingy hopes, our – tragicomic – fear of life…
Translated into English by Lynnette Polcyn
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