Armand Gatti, Subject to History: The Problem of Representation

Armand Gatti, Subject to History: The Problem of Representation JOHN IRELAND SIANG NOU But why speak of solitud~? Whatever we do none of us is alone. KING K'O We are never alone, but we bear solitude within us. This solitude is simply a fonn of waiting. A way of trying oul during the whole of our life the way in which we shall die. Armand Gatti, The Black Fish (Paris, 1958), p. 89 In an interview given to Denis Bablet at a critical moment in his theatrical evolution, Annand Gatti states that he has never been able to formulate a theory which corresponds with his dramatic practice or, more exactly, that he has never been able to fonnulate one theory which renders a proper account of it: I have never succeeded in defining what theatre is for me, because I keep finding myself faced with two definitions: at times it is one of these definitions that strikes me as accurate, at times the other. Sometimes theatre seems to be a way of remaining faithful to the child that] w