ABSTRACT
In the space of fewer than five hundred words, Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) radically challenges bedrock assumptions about theatrical representation. Duras's General Remarks that preface her path-breaking work, India Song (1973), question the conventional use of setting in the theatre and assumptions about adaptation from one genre to another. She redefines the relationship between the audience and a performance and perhaps most notably incorporates the memories of the audience into the dramaturgy of her work.
