RIGHT WALL
BACK WALL
FLOOR

The set designer’s note

The table Cortázar left in the store room is a senseless tangle of laths. But with the lamps lit one at a time, each wall receives a different silhouette.

Three lamps, three shadows, three letters. In this order: right wall, back wall and floor.

The three letters

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Switch on one lamp at a time and see what shadow comes out.
Teatro Circo · scene dock · projection room
THE TABLE OF THREE SHADOWS
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From the set designer bequest

THE TABLE OF THREE SHADOWS

In the store room stands a contraption of laths that looks like nothing at all: not a figure, not a piece of furniture, not a model. Cortázar left it in the middle of the projection room with three lamps aimed from three different places, and a note saying that the piece itself was not the thing to look at.

The three shadows