In 1998 Claude Buchvald staged Novarina's play, and it was presented in the Bastille Theatre in the Paris Autumn Festival and later in 2001, in Peter Brook's Bouffes du Nord Theatre. In Novarina's plays the actors munch on the delicious flesh of words. They devour the world by uttering it in its totality. There's a phrase in contemporary French theatre: "Novarina actor". The intensity of pronunciation is crucial for Novarina, he works with word-acrobats. This is the source of his attraction to neologisms, endless enumerations and powerful use of dramatic elements. What we see is a classic tragedy,...