Lettera di una costruttrice di maschere. Lettera 59. Con una nota di Eugenio Barba

Abstract

«Dear Readers of “Teatro e Storia”, I was born on an isolated farm in New Zealand. I saw animals being born, mature and die. I saw fields of corn germinate, ripen and die. What fascinated me was death. And so when I was 7, I began practising different ways of dying: by lance; by hanging; by cannibalism; by rabid beast; by burial under the sudden collapse of a tall building; by poisoned wine offered by a friend… I became the Child Dominator of Death! My parents didn’t talk to each other which gave me the opportunity to practise death by endless, dense silence. My world was filled with invisible characters and objects imbued with life».