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The Perpetual Theatre.

The Perpetual Theatre is the brainchild of playwright Sven Right.

"I used to write my plays one at a time, and every time I began a new script it was the same old story. At the start I was alive. I was illuminated with passion for this tale I was going to tell. Hooray! I am thinking to myself, every single time. But then the ending would come towards me and my thoughts would become black. Oh no. I could never think of good endings. My mind sank into the darkness and I was depressed, my bones was depressed, it was all depressed: kaput!

'After a while of this I began to ask questions about the role of endings. Why do we need them for? Simple: because the audience needs to go home. Why do the audience not go home in the middle? Is it because they afraid of missing something? Yes, that is it. Ah, but what if the play never did end, so they could leave whenever they wanted and know that they are not missing anything? That would be the best!

'It is also true that the actors are always having more fun from the play than the audience. The actors have been allowed to go through the rehearsing and the developing and building of the play which is it's life. The performances that you pay to see, they are the corpses of a living project. I think it is not fair that people pay money to look at corpses.

'My Perpetual Theatre is where I make a culmination out of these two thoughts. We are renting a space in the theatre district in Ex, and then we are building no sets and no curtain. Phoo, away with the curtain! Now we only put on one play. The play had its beginning two years ago and it has never had an ending. The actors, they come and go. The script, I write part of it, then they improvise, then I write more and come back with more. They say, "Thank you," and do my script for a while. Then they improvise again. Sometimes the audience joins in. We had one girl, she joined us for four months and we did not know her name. She brought biscuits from home. The biscuits joined the performance. One was a door and one was a picture of a kitten. The kitten was dead; that was in the story. The audience, they come and go. They feed us fruit, it is the custom. They are seeing something that is always alive and it does not need to end.

'This is the best."

You can see the Perpetual Theatre in action at 50 Riddworthy Lane.
Read the Exian Theatre Guide.