The sincere lie or how a philosophical view of the theater allows a pact where to see without being seen and thus perhaps get closer to the truth

Abstract

We face reality as if it were a single possibility. We face our thinking and imagination as if it were something concrete or exact or arising from a logos. We see the other as if he or she were me or as a combatant for whom it is impossible to understand myself, or we do not see the other at all. I see myself as hyperreal or frustrated or inferior or superior self or... If I cannot look outwards nor towards the other or even at myself, where should one look in order to see? Where should one listen in order to understand? Where should one think in order to imagine, to converse, to live? Theater presents and represents everything that is given as a possibility without the aggressiveness (but not without cruelty) that in our times leads to blockage, simulacrum, character or market. We need a curious pact that is not explicit but understood —inherited since ancient times—. We need something that tells us what we are with a characteristic veil that allows us to look straight ahead. We need to understand that only from a sincere lie we can achieve what someone dreamed of as truth. Theater makes you be the Other that teaches you what you don't see yourself or its approximation or possibility.