Journey on an endless dead-end siding. Did the train leave with or
without us? Who knows? To wait for the answer. Without an end. It is in
vain. ‘Nothing’ happens on the stage.
Somewhere, some day, maybe in a waiting hall, maybe after the
apocalypse, two people meet. One of them, who is over everything,
listens, takes notes, because he finds people interesting. The other
comes and goes, dies and rises from the dead. It is damn melancholic.
With their absurd rhythms, they are on their ways, they travel, round
and round, straight ahead.
Theatre Tetrapiloktomie was established in Berlin in 1999. After saying
goodbye to the retired railman, Elemér Kovács, László Klapcsik was very
sad. Then he met Wolf Dieckmann, an acknowledged exponent of
pataphysics. Together they realised the necessity of founding a new
theatre. Fumbling along the boundary of fine art and theatre, they
found a lot of whatnots chucked away (a saw, a long expired tin of
sardines, a tea kettle with a hole in it, and so on). These objects
became decisive items in their later work. |