PQ Studio: Festival: Stopy zbloudilých
“To keep going around in circles. To be constantly confused.”
Handke’s traditional/experimental text is a poetic parable about a journey and leaving traces. The constant roaming of individuals and couples becomes the roaming of powerful crowds, insects, spiders, and birds. Everything started with a trivial neighbourly argument, an ordinary marital quarrel, and ends with the arrival of a comet, hopeless migration of a global character, and the apocalyptic end of time. Handke explores “new opportunities for his dramatic and theatrical poetics and strengthens and develops the epic elements and lyricism. The basic building blocks of his poetics, apart from walking, coming and going, include fragmentariness, elusiveness, and evanescence.” (See Zuzana Augustová: The Angry and Nostalgic Pilgrim in Europe). In the fractional of situations, commonness becomes a myth, the absurd comic with various, and often tragic, models of interpersonal relationships. We have been looking for “the third one so long until we forgot about the other. We have seen ourselves in mere reflections for
Performing artists
Czechia