[Excerpt from beginning of lecture published in Theatrical Life, Moscow, No. 18, 1989, pp. 8-10.]

"Yesterday I said there is a huge area of performative, play-acting theater, and there also exists the area of mystery theater, but I did not speak about something that is deeply inherent in modernity, art-nouveau, which is connected with its own personal tragedy. Not of the postmodern, or avant-garde - but of art-nouveau, which is expressed with all sorts of wonderful names ... This is 'life creation.'"