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“rumor has it … that there exists a way out.”
SAMUEL BECKETT’S
THE LOST ONES
PREMIERE
Theater for the New City, 1975
ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY
LEE BREUER
MUSIC COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY
PHILIP GLASS
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“The audience at Theater for the New City is led to a small, tiered room, a carpeted cell in which we sit as David Warrilow begins, like an explorer on a new continent, to describe the configurations of the cylinder and the nature of its population. The actor has a deep, tremulous voice, a precision instrument for delivering this dirge. As counterpoint, music by Philip Glass treats the compartment like a cathedral. While the actor speaks, he carefully places minuscule paper cutouts of people on a miniature representation of the cylinder—a child’s model that suddenly becomes a projection of the reality itself. The speaker has been an inhabitant of this Dantesque zone. Now he becomes its deus ex machina. ”
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