Patricia Cifre Wibrow


I think a very good example of CRITICAL OPTIMISM is your play.

It´s optimistic AND intelligent, in a dialectical way. It shows the difficulty of
changing things, but at the same time it makes clear that the easiest option is just
to assume that nothing can be done.

On the other hand I think it´s optimistic AND corageous, because beeing optimistic
in contemporary art means to take a risk. The elegant, smart thing is to be
pessimistic, desillusioned, subversive - to make tabula rasa of everything, so that
the spectators go home under the impression that they will never again go into a
supermarket, never again have sex or whatever, because everything is false and
spetit-bourgeois. So what? You avoided the big, subversive gestures; you even
remained dressed!!! You didn´t shout around. You talked. And what you said was
understandable and made sense. And your body and your eyes, your hands and mimic
underlined the meaning conveyed. Even the way each of you bowed at the end of the
play was acting of the best.

Finally, my last argument: The enthusiam I felt during the play and after had
something to do with the fact that it reminded me of things I really believe in,
although I keep forgetting them: that it is worth triying; that to stop triying is
corruption.

Many greetings from Salamanca - from the third row...

Patricia Cifre Wibrow