the death of memory is about the past as limbo - dull and white - and making prisoners of its subjects. the keeper guards time, memory, and the four people in misericordia - each with terrible memories they cannot bring themselves to face. the play develops on this paradox and asks us how memories can both be abstract and concrete, distant but engulfing.
the scattered yet coherent violences in the play serve as reminders of the destructive powers of memory left to itself, memory allowed to devour the human instead of human action over it. the situation appears helpless at first. one could not help but think of camus' man - shouting and longing for sound in a world that could only answer in silence.
and then one character realizes that through will and strength - violence against violence - maybe the keeper can be put to rest. by summoning memories maybe they can be overcome. and even when it ends with another victim, another memory, the human still triumphs over the irrationality of the world, imagined or not. the keeper, and she may have a thousand rebirths, can always be conquered and killed.
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