Konstantin Treplev:
[speaking to his uncle]
When the curtain goes up, on a room with 3 walls, lit by artificial lights, and these great artists, these high priests of art start imitating people eating, drinking, loving, moving about, wearing their humdrum clothes, when out of a few vulgar images and sentences they try to extract a moral, just a very little one, and that's got to be adaptable and convenient and safe for domestic use. Well, enough of the same old thing, over and over and over again in a thousand variations. I just take to my heels and run like Maupassant when he ran from the Eiffel Tower because of its vulgarity.
Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin:
[starts to applaud]
You can't do without it! Without the theater, i mean.
Konstantin Treplev:
We need change... we need new forms... and if we can't find them, it would be better to have nothing at all.
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05/03/2025 alle ore 08:24