Einstein On The Beach: How On Earth Do The Actors Memorize All Those Numbers And Nonsense Phrases?

Helga Davis: “That was the hardest part for me. There’s nothing for you to grab on to in the way that we need logic to communicate. There’s nothing. It was maddening. … [But] when we got into rehearsal, the language got attached to movement, and suddenly I didn’t have any problem at all. Connecting the text to the body was the key.”