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October
To accept or not? For me (as for other Moscovite futurists), a question like this is never asked.
It’s a revolution of mine. Arrived at Smolny. I work. I take everything coming.
25 October, year -18
I have finished “Mistery”. I read it. We talk a lot. Meyerhold stages it with Malevich. There’s a
terrible fuss about it. Intellectuals-who-think-they-are-communists in particular. Andreeva stood
on her head. To block the way. There are 3 performances – then things start getting a bit rough.
And the “Macbeths” leave again.
Year -28
I write the poem “Things are going badly”. Some plays and my literary biography. Many say:
“Your autobiography isn’t very serious”. That’s quite right. I haven’t “academised” myself yet and
I’m not used to pampering myself, just as it is also true that my work interests me if it is cheerful.
The awakening and demise of several literatures, symbolists, realists etc., our fight against them
– everything that I’ve seen: it’s a part of our very serious history. We need it to be written. And I
shall write it.
De Onderneming
This collective of actors was formed in 1996 under the motto ‘life is short, art lasts a long time,
the opportunity passes quickly, experiments are dangerous and giving a verdict is hard’. The
core of the group is comprised of Waas Gramser, Kris van Trier, Günther Lesage and Ryszard
Turbiasz. The collective puts on spectacles in an autonomous way: without a director’s
intervention, with a minimum of means and a maximum amount of imagination – often in
collaboration with all kinds of companies and guests. Literary dramatic classics feature in their
repertoire (with new translations and caustic arrangements) alongside novels adapted for the
stage. De Onderneming (The Enterprise) gives of its best in the most varied of venues: in its
own premises in Hoboken, in unexpected places and, of course, in theatres and at festivals in
Belgium and abroad.
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