“rumor has it … that there exists a way out.”
SAMUEL BECKETT’S
THE LOST ONES
PREMIERE
Theater for the New City, 1975
ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY
LEE BREUER
MUSIC COMPOSED AND PERFORMED BY
PHILIP GLASS
“The audience at Theater for the New City is led to a small, tiered room, a carpeted cell in which we sit as David Warrilow begins, like an explorer on a new continent, to describe the configurations of the cylinder and the nature of its population. The actor has a deep, tremulous voice, a precision instrument for delivering this dirge. As counterpoint, music by Philip Glass treats the compartment like a cathedral. While the actor speaks, he carefully places minuscule paper cutouts of people on a miniature representation of the cylinder—a child’s model that suddenly becomes a projection of the reality itself. The speaker has been an inhabitant of this Dantesque zone. Now he becomes its deus ex machina. ”