By the time the play that best play on the scandalous chronicle, the ritual of the so-called "pyramid of love" that part of the audience that the play shocked or irritated, had already left the room. Left or those who fascinated him, or really very curious. Some of them - on the stage, and some - in the hall, but now the light is dimmed, and the intimate atmosphere of the party and carnival freedom.
This atmosphere and had to prepare, as expected, participants play a "pyramid of love." This "pyramid" was in the spirit of the above ideas to symbolize the counterculture - is really profane - love merge into a whole people, casting aside all that divides them. Actors shouted, "Black," "White," "Christian," "Jew!" These exclamations like destroying the power of stupid people share names. Finally, the last - "You," "I! ยป The last barrier falling, now there is only "we". According to the authors - revived, united and happy humanity, really well - the most scandalous spectacle that brought the biggest theater revenues.
This new state of the man, who became, as in heaven, godlike, was to show the final scene - the "flight". Group of people standing in the hall, ready to pick up someone who is going to "fly". "Breathe, breathe, and breathe" - they are chanting. Actor spreads his arms like wings and "flies" from the stage waiting to embrace him.
Representation, whose style most accurately captured by the word "action" is over. Now the process must proceed on the street, it is desirable - naked, but because it threatens trouble with the police, we have to get dressed. Because of the audience it made a bad impression (which means that it was untrue, and the whole ritual may not have any effect?), Dressing in the end, too, furnished as a ritual that was supposed to make it as would be unrealistic.
And the plan itself, and stage the fate of "Paradise" reflected the aspirations of both internal contradictions and the counterculture, and its ultimate defeat. One example is the reaction of the hall - organically important to play as a whole, for it, at least in conception, was not because of the success in the usual sense, but in the ability of theater to awaken the audience to a new life. Meanwhile, when passed the shock caused by the singularity of the "action" in the audience became increasingly flash incidents occur atmosphere of irritation and misunderstanding. Increasingly, questions began to be heard as to why the actors involved in such nonsense, and do not apply, for example, the problems of monopoly power or racial segregation. |