DAS 6-TAGE SPIEL DES ORGIEN MYSTERIEN THEATERS

"Inspired by Richard Wagner's music dramas, greek tragedy and Georg Trakl's poetry, and urged on no doubt by youthful impetuosity, I wanted to outdo all that theater had previously achieved. I wanted to expand drama to epic dimensions. I Knew the monumental paintings of the 16th and 17th century masters, and was interested in life-size representation on stage, I asked myself why the playing time of 5 hours set by Wagner could not be overstepped. I entertained the idea of writing a drama which would take days to perform. The result was the draft of a play that required 6 days to enact, analogous to the story of creation in the old testament. I attempted in this drama to depict the entire history of mankind (the story of creation). Not its outward history, with its wars, struggles for power