Abstract
This chapter focuses on early performances, including the street shows, Put It On Your Head and A Minute Too Late. In the early 1980s the company was particularly open to interactions with the world around it, which led to establishing the structural foundations for Complicite’s work. Attention is given to the issues of the construction and composition of A Minute Too Late. Numerous dichotomies between the carnival and the lyrical, the mimetic and the counterfactual, are discussed, as are those within spatial imagery and composition. All this leads to more general remarks concerning the unusual logic of plot that characterises the company’s work. The argument makes practical use of Yuri Lotman’s concept of semiotic infiltration.
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Wiśniewski, T. (2016). The Logic of the Plot in Théâtre de Complicité. In: Complicite, Theatre and Aesthetics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33443-1_3
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