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Nights at the Foot of Eternity: The Cairo International Theater Festival |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: John Elsom |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,539 Words, 14,962 Characters |
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The Fifth Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater will be hard to forget. It was a heady mixture of the sublime and the ridiculous, brewed in such extreme proportions that it left its international jury, of which I was a member, gasping and giggling for a fortnight, like kids at a theme park. One venue was the Sound and Light Theater, a spectacular open-air platform in Giza at the foot of the Pyramids, which can be varously lit as a backdrop; but if there is one sight in the world guaranteed to put the avant-garde in its place, it is the Sphinx, which lay there stony- faced through a Platonic dialogue on erotic love from Romani a and a very long Antigone from Germany. Even WC. Fields would have preferred to play Philadelphia.
The festival took place in early September 19...
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... the fixture should take as its emblem the Sphinx. Cool in the noonday sun, impassive before change, slower to move than a Robert Wilson production, the Sphinx embodies all the Post-Modern virtues except one. It has no instinct for time, which it takes for granted, and we would have welcomed it on the jury panel if we had been able to compete with its infinite capacity for not getting bored.
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