On collage

Abstract

Theatrical collage (as in The Marowitz Hamlet, A Macbeth, An Othello) combines speed, discontinuity and dramatic juxtaposition. Speed enables it to deliver a maximum amount of information in a minimum amount of time. Discontinuity permits it to express interior meanings that in more conventional structures are revealed through the more plodding movements of unfolding psychology. Dramatic juxtapositions enable it to convey contrast and contradiction in such a way as to provide more dramatic information than is possible through sequential development. The effect of this swift, fragmentary method is to generate a surreal style that communicates experience from a subjective standpoint, thereby shifting the focus of events from an exterior to an interior reality.