ABSTRACT

Memory is important. It is instructive. It avoids repeating the vicissitudes of the past. It stimulates us to follow their example. It makes us perspicacious and sharpens our ability to choose. Knowing the past inspires solutions for the present. Memory is knowledge. Knowledge is power. The library was a country of sleep and silence. Its inhabitants whispered in a rarefied landscape of people hugging a book, a magazine or an illustration. It was the country of a passion that blinded. Daydreaming is one of the fundamental techniques of improvisation. It enables them mentally and, through their own physical and vocal presence, to sail on a river whose final course they ignore. In theatre, daydreaming is the premise for unpredictability, for surprising and being surprised. A science exists to evoke what happened in a turbulence and simultaneity of calculated decisions, irrational impulses, emotional reactions, accidental coincidences, contradictions.