Arts & Culture

The Citadel of Silence

At the Bastille Opera house in Paris, Jean Grémion talked at length with Bob Wilson a few months ago. In this exclusive document, the author of Deafman Glance, Einstein on the Beach, and the CIVIL warS to name but a few, retraces his steps since his first work.
The Citadel of Silence is above all else a dizzying plunge into the inaccessible realm of Bob Wilson´s hidden secrets & his meeting with Raymond Andrews, the deaf child; with Christopher Knowles, whom doctors thought of as autistic, but whom Bob Wilson on the other hand greeted as a new Mozart, with Philip Glass, who enabled him to take a side road leading him out of the lands of silence.
Enriched with extracts from his main works & Deafman Glance (1971), Ka Mountain (1972), A Letter for Queen Victoria (1975), Einstein on the Beach (1976), Death, Destruction and Detroit (1976-1987) and the CIVIL warS (1984), the Citadel of Silence can also be construed as the account of an assassinated childhood.