Michael Shanks - site 2006: The Spectator

The core of the tragic look is inside the spectator, since he is not looking for any object outside himself. This melting of roles is only possible in tragedy, where one inexplicably finds oneself in the performance. Is there still today this communal possibility of founding the look? Isn't this the new challenge of each theatre? Does looking still make sense?

Epopteia, this is how the ancients used to call the look that relaunches and creates the object that is looked at. The text recited on stage wil reveal the common beloning to mankind. We are talking beings and we use a system made of black spots to which, broadly speaking, we refer to as an alphabet and this is everythign we have and that holds us together.

-Romeo Castellucci, translated by Valentini Guidi