sitz! platz!

the theatre-house, encased from the street-entry to the stage in vinyl, polyethylene and latex like a quarantined site or some kind of containment, a prophylactic, either moulded over the existing architecture of the theater, or pre-manufactured and then installed in varying dimensions depending on venue, alternating in texture from powdered to lubricated latex, polished vinyl, hard-moulded polyethylene sheeting, all strewn with confetti and artificially refrigerated, alternating black, grey, clear, beige and thick blinding-white rubber flooring and wall-covering, harshly lit in places, gradually arriving at the twilit seating area. The larger the venue, the more exploded the seams must appear, as if the scenography struggles to contain the space too large for its limited volume. In this instance, the lot should be allowed to droop and deform. In the case of a minimal theater hall, or an alternative space, the "original" theater house should be partly reconstructed within the host venue, though not in its entirety, so as not to seem a mere simulacrum and to maintain a balance between the present space and the "ghost" space. Of greater importance is the existence of a balcony on which the 1st audience sits and awaits the arrival of the 2nd audience.