Fact and fiction are important aspects of the work of Margit Odems (director), Trudy Hekman (designer) and Maud Lazaroms (playwright), both in form and content. The theme which is closely bound up with these subjects is 'identity'. Are the things we do actually what we want to do, and, do the words we say give utterance to what we really want to say? Are we maybe sincere and insincere at the same time?
Our environment has taught us ways to express ourselves, which have become little fragments of our personality. We are all part of an arranged system of social codes and it is within the boundaries of this system that we can seek for freedom.
Margit: "I do not like fake; I am looking for reality, honesty and truth. Although this is how I want the world to be, the codes of conduct provide us with a way of living in which it is difficult to determine what is real and what is not. Moreover, it has become very difficult to distinguish natural behaviour from what we have been taught during our lives.
My innermost desire is that none of these codes will stand between me and others. Then, I hope, the world will be how it should be. Nevertheless, this idea is rather utopian: in such a world there will be moments of tremendous intensity, moments when we will destroy each other and moments when we will be very sweet to each other. All nuance will disappear. It will be impossible to live with that."
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