“Seven Solitudes is a poetic journey within Oscar Milosz’s work and Robert Wilson‘s creative mind. It combines Miłosz’s poetry, prose and fables, with his more dramatic and metaphysical works, investigating love, loneliness, death, and the neverending search for light and polyphony, while raising existential questions about humanity, its place in the universe and the passage of time.
We started this project together with Wilson and a team of long-time artistic collaborators at the National Kaunas Drama Theater. As always, he began with images, references, and making drawings, while I was diving into the concepts stemming from the text materials. He then led a first stage of rehearsals. He knew his days were counted, and yet he doubled his efforts to initiate a first sketch for the piece, as a gesture projected beyond death, almost like an artistic testament.”