Thirty years of “Kaosmos”: seven topics on the Odin Teatret

Abstract

Through a personal reading of the Odin Teatret’s Kaosmos, the author pursues the rules of game created by the director and the actors and permeating the staging of the performance. Can the spectator’s sense of giddiness be traced back to the rules of the game? If the game is the art of the performer, the fertile inventiveness and the staging of ideas through ingenious and simple solutions, an unceasing, thirty year long activity, characterized by intensity and rigour in an ever renewed creative process, then the stakes are high.