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Furthermore, in accordance with the wholly realized performing freedom of a stage protagonist, they replaced the text by an unhistorical and non-ideological but powerfully awakened expressive and universal sensual language of the human body, elementary sound structuring, the accompaniment of human breathing and primal, simple acoustic musical accompaniment. Ontheone hand,today's reconstruction by directors quotationally refers to the preserved authentic documentary material (a short film recording of a rehearsal, photos, notes and writings of the cocreators and media reflections on the performance by reporters and critics of the time) and draws on the theatrically most precious, full co-creative cooperation and the enchanting memory of both key creators and protagonists of the "object of research" (Avbeij and Jarc). On the other hand, with the new, younger co-creators and co-protagonists (Reba, Narat), it introduces into the process of an exploratory and systematic revival of stage memory also the elements of an appropriately presented passing down of tradition from one generation to another, mutual creative enrichment and, last but not least, the evident deepening of the once rebelliously and audaciously extorted stage experience within today's completely different historical, social and aesthetic circumstances. As opposed to the opening night of Monument G on 28 January 1972, which, according to the documents, was attended by 180 spectators, on the opening night of the reconstruction, on 27

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