ABSTRACT
The text, The Water Station, is a blueprint for a performance filled with poetic description of the silent characters' gaze and movement, music and stage-setting. Characterized by silence, slow tempo and empty space, The Water Station is the first piece where Ota's aesthetic is fully established. In The Water Station, the artificial abnormality of the actor's body is created by the strange sense of time combined with absolute wordlessness. The particular dramaturgy of The Water Station offered a different experience from performing The Bald Soprano. In the performance of The Water Station, its minimalism required clarity of awareness from the beginning as a way of creating stories within silence and at a slow tempo. The active-passiveness functioned as the mechanism of reaction in performing the set of psychophysical scores that created the image of the character, the Girl of The Water Station on the specific stage.
