hs lack of understanding what isbeing said to him is positioned as a metaphor for his uncertainty of being understood himself. In the end the Theatre de Complicities production of Street of Crocodiles benefits fromweaving a number of different styles together and possible creating a new one in the process. Whileelements of absurdism are evident they serve a different purpose than that for which they are usuallyused. The mime work incorporated into the body of the piece empowers the strength of the playslanguage, yet the movement is never enacted on its own. Indeed no single pure element from any ofthe formal genres on which this creation draws is utilized on its own. In their note on the script,Simon McBurney and Mark Wheatley speak about the plays composition and nature in the followingterms.So, this book is more the record of a process than a text for performance; a map rather than a play. A play is a place which demands to be inhabited; both origin and destination,linked by a clearly determined path. A map indicates the landscape, suggests a multitude of directions, but does notdictate which one you should take. ...
