"Rau weaves these pasts and presents adroitly, reveling in contrast: the cool distance created by the three projection screens versus the dirt floor on stage, live performance versus filmed performances, the so-called Old World and the New. Although Rau’s project is about land and community and resistance in the face of oppression, it is deeply obsessed with the Atlantic gap between Europe and the Americas and the blood that still flows as a result of this meeting. His diligence to this end is palpable. By the close of the piece, when we are confronted with the dichotomy between brutality and humanity, white violence and brown uprisings, Antigone and Creon, it seems that Rau has made his point. To quote the New York Times, “You can’t say… Rau doesn’t practice what he preaches.”
Until it holds from the inside
Only humans can fantasise
There's all that future, still
Beyond madness, tenderness awaits
With closed eyes, you can see whomever you’d like