The Garden is centred on the psychic and carnal pleasures and pains of Man and Woman. Their archetype is the primeval couple, Adam and Eve, however, they appear not in the state of the original Biblical perfection, but after they have committed their Sin and have been banished from
Eden. The Garden of Damnation stands for the passionate diversity of a world laden with conflicts, emblematic of the ruins of life.

The anxiety, pain, and passion of the characters of the Garden cannot be grasped any more without the threat of lying, and therefore the production takes refuge in musicality consisting of strange sound fragments, on one hand, and in poetry consisting of fragmentary scenes based on a grotesque association of ideas, on the other. The dead vacuity and serene coldness of space is counterbalanced by the presence of upgraded imagery, reinforced by fragments from Jean Racine’s tragedies, from Rainer Maria Rilke’s and Sándor Weöres’ poems, from Apocrypha,
Gnostic Scriptures, the Book of Psalms, and accompanied by contemporary music, dance, and video fragments.

‘Cherish me, like the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings...’

Book of Psalms