Theatre of Memory 1995-1998

Our origins are made of personal and acquired memory. There are many types of memory: historical, emotional, scholastic, atavistic, pictorial, photographic, mythical, filmic, oneiric, and many others. Sometimes we remember things or images stolen or borrowed from a variety of sources because memory can cheat. It can modify or change the contours of a face, it can substitute or juxtapose details and information according to how we want to represent experience. Memory can reinvent the past while remaining the only link to History.

Those who have no memory have lost part of themselves

They have lost their identity

Their voice

Their history

Their culture

Their language.

Those who have no memory

have lost the images

the meaning of words

a place of belonging

a sense of life.

Memory can help us define who we are. Not as nostalgic reminiscence but as a vital thread connecting past experience. The desire is to give back to theatre its primary capacity to create temporary communities, contributing to the creation of a collective historical conscience. As in the Greek world, theatre goes back to being the legitimate and irreplaceable expression of deep-rooted collective emotions, an interactive place between stage and audience, between spectator and performer. A theatre which is living, to be lived and not simply consumed.