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4 February - 30 April 2000

Beckett liberated the stage from all excess, and honed the role of the human being to the basics of man's existence, to love, power and identity. Inspired by the media, he goes beyond text to use the stage as a sculptural space. At the end of this development Beckett demonstrates how he continues his literary project 'without language' in the medium of film, for example in Quadrat (1982). Here he designs an imaginary space of light, movement and sound, and executes a kind of squaring of the circle from language to space. Beckett defines spaces using the people (the actors).

fig: Samuel Beckett, "Warten auf Godot", Schiller Theater Berlin, 8.3.1975; Regie: Samuel Becket
photo: Archiv: Ilse Bühs/Jürgen Remmler; Courtesy Deutsches Theatermuseum