You're right in demanding that the artist have a conscious relation to his work, but you are confusing two ideas: solving a problem and posing a problem correctly. —Anton Chekhov , Letters to A.S. Suvorin Choreography too will reassume tasks of a realistic nature. It is a mistake of recent time that it has nothing to do with the depiction of “people as they really are.” […] In any case a theater that bases everything on Gestus cannot do without choreography. — Bertolt Brecht , Little Organon All lije Murphy, is figure and ground. — Samuel Beckett , Murphy