Re:TheAshLad - Sandbooks

on the level of real matter the. theater must also be considered as the
Double not of this direct. everyday reality of which it is gradually being
reduced to a mere. inert replicaas empty as it is sugarcoatedbut of
another. archetypal and dangerous reality a reality of which the.
Principles like dolphins once they have shown their heads hurry. dive
back into the obscurity of the deep.. For this reality is not human but
inhuman and man with his. customs and his character counts for very
little in it. Perhaps even. man's head would not be left to him if he
were.... bali theater What is in fact curious about all these gestures these
angular. and abruptly abandoned attitudes these syncopated
modulations. formed at the back of the throat these musical phrases that
break. off short these flights of elytra these rustlings of branches these.
sounds of hollow drums these robot squeakings these dances of.
animated manikins is this that through the labyrinth of their. gestures
attitudes and sudden cries through the gyrations and. turns which leave
no portion of the stage space un utilized the. sense of. anew physical.
language based upon signs and no. longer upon words is liberated....
Everything is thus regulated and impersonal not. a movement. of the
muscles not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a. kind of
reflective mathematics which controls everything and by. means of
which everything happens. And the strange thing is that. in this
systematic depersonalization in these purely muscular. facial
expressions applied to the features like masks everything. produces a
significance everything affords the maximum effect.. A kind of terror
seizes us at the thought of these mechanized. beings whose joys and
griefs seem not their own but at the. service of ageold rites.... An
impression of inhumanity of the divine of miraculous. revelation is
further provided by the exquisite beauty of the. women's headdress this
series of banked luminous circles made. combinations of multicolored
feathers or from pearls of so. beautiful a coloration that their
combination has a quality of. revelation and the crests of which tremble
rhythmically. responding consciously or so it seems to the tremblings of
the. body.There are also the other headdresses of sacerdotal character.
in the shape of tiaras and topped with egret crests and stiff flowers. in
pairs of contrasting strangely harmonizing colors.. This dazzling
ensemble full of explosions flights secret. streams detours in every
direction of both external and internal. perception composes a
sovereign idea of the theater as it has. been preserved for us down
through the centuries in order to teach. us what the theater never should
have ceased to be.... Here we are suddenly in deep metaphysical
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