Images of paradise

This article is an attempt at outlining a para-theatrical phenomenon taking place in Eastern Europe, where two of the leading directors and companies – Eimuntas Nekrošius (in Divine Comedy and Paradise at the Lithuanian Meno Fortas Theatre, turning his vintage style upside down) and Grzegorz Bral (in Songs of Lear at the Polish Song of the Goat Theatre) – dare to make theatre reside in a territory that could be called transcendental, or esoteric, or Divine, depending on the point of view.