ABSTRACT
Today, I would like to talk to you about ‘reality in the theatre’. I have not chosen this subject by chance. I believe it has been imposed on me by the period in which we live, which has deeply shaken the very notion of reality. The comfort of deeply established reality, where conscience had its place, where God was in his heaven and in his church, where social classes were distinct, where moral law distinguished between good and evil – the whole organisation of an orderly world with its gradual changes has been upset by wars, by revolutions, and by discoveries of all kinds. It’s a commonplace, in particular for us Europeans.
