Surrealpolitik: The Gas Heart

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"The Dada Anti-Masterpiece of Drama." A play of absurd non-sequiturs that I imagine would be quite painful to sit through, while also believing that it is fantastic that it exists. According to the translator Eric v.d. Luft, the play should never actually have an ending. The actors should just keep going, either starting over from the beginning without a pause or repeating random lines from earlier in the play, or making stuff up as they go along, until the audience figures out that they'd better leave. In at least one production, the audience was forced out physically by the still-acting actors because they had come with coffee, determined to make the play continue all night.

Last updated: April 8, 2022