SOURCE: A review of The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, in Times Literary Supplement, September 16, 1994, p. 19.

In the following review, the critic offers an unfavorable assessment of The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other.

Edinburgh audiences have long since realized that the centre of energy and the avant-garde on the European stage is in non-scripted and often non-verbal performance. It is a lesson that could have been learned in recent Festivals from, for example, Els Comediants, or Teatr Nowy and a whole range of other Polish companies, or from the Compagnie Jerome Duchamps or any other of the former students of Jacques Lecoq’s theatre school performing on Festival or Fringe. The director of The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Luc Bondy, is one of these former students, also at one time much interested in Polish theatre. It is a background which no...