Richard III

The Monster within us is an engine, a force, a free zone. Monster or monstrosity, inaccessible star or deformity,

Mirage...

Without the ability to welcome the monster, the essential cannot come out. There is no evil, the good, the bad, the good. Everything is confused: pain, joy, effort, non-effort, enjoyment and non-jouissance. How much we like to suffer to get to the top.

Can the obstacle, the other, become the monster we want to fight in order to access our own summit? Can this mountain that we desire do without the image of a monster to fight that would be our own image? The monster thus defined as a necessity for the attainment of our own desire can only be within us and not outside us. We need the fight to be in motion and the fight forces us to roll up the sleeves, to desire the effort, and therefore to have pain. I have the desire to stage Richard III. I wish to gradually forget the image that Shakespeare gave us. We must feel this text as a work aimed at interfering fully in the thought of a man whose obsession is not the power but the legitimacy to access this power.

This is the knot. Become a monster, become THE monster, and probably, by associating the sacred, become thus a sacred monster. That is the legitimacy. Not only in our own monstrosity to want to reach the top but by legitimizing by the sacred our monstrosity.