Pale Fire

The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction

Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief,

And her pale fire she snatches from the sun:

The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves

The moon into salt tears.

Timon of Athens Act IV sc iii

Pale Fire shuns:

• Didacticism

• Art as social commentary

• Allegory

• Authorial intention

• A belief in innate ‘meaning.’

• The ‘simple’ and the ‘true.’

Pale Fire adores:

• ‘Aesthetic Bliss.’

• The multiple.

• The enigmatic.

• The simultaneous suspension of multiple realities; like a mad juggler.

• La Plaisir du Texte

• Fantastical deceit.

• The truth of the imagination.

1. •Indolence

‘There can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.”

Vladimir Nabokov

‘There can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art.”

Vladimir Nabokov

Pale Fire was founded in 2004 by Alastair James Veitch. Its mandate is composed of three aspirations:

1. •Evolve the theatrical experience.
   

2. •Generate and cultivate new work.
   

3. •Create dazzling theatre.
   

The name Pale Fire is derived from the Vladimir Nabokov novel of the same name, in turn, derived from a quotation from Timon of Athens. Modern Theatre has long been in stasis. Despite transcending the plush red velvet seat there’s still a self-perpetuating reticence for true innovation. The didactic, the staid, the antiquated; all are features of the current theatre. Pale Fire loathes didacticism and wholeheartedly rejects authorial intention. Pale Fire refuses to be trapped, it revels in the aesthetic bliss that comes the mercurial; from multiple and simultaneously appreciated streams of interpretation: what Nabokov shortly termed as ‘aesthetic bliss.’