A review by ellephuonglinhnguyen
33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton

3.0

Performance artists notoriously disdain the theater. Initially, Abramovic was no exception. "Performance is about the true reality," she explains, whereas "theater is artificial, the blood is not blood, the knife is not a knife." Nevertheless, she asked several directors to "contact" her life and "remix it," so she could see it anew. Robert Wilson, an avant-garde director, has risen to the challenge with an opera titled The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic, a project that will no doubt enhance her legend. "The only theater I do is my own," she explains. "My life is the only life that I can play."