Your madness has broken out and you use it as a toy of destruction, you change what lies behind other people's ramparts. It reveals itself to be the equivalent of revolutionary dissidence, a far cry from other people's buried madness….

They are mad, but they don't know it, you are mad too, and you don't know it either. But they remain afraid of madness, while youi aren't.

You are swarming with words, like them, but your condition causes you to see words glide into sentences, and the words slip unnoticed into their sentences.

[…] Act out the text in its brutality, as it is, without looking for anything else, without psychology.

Above all it has to be wild, no niceness, no halftones; what makes it wild is that these are people who have become raw, abrupt, pure again like uncut crystal.

Duras's advice to actors in a performance of Le Shaga in early 1968