Is it still daytime?

In Passage Nord's catalogue the following is written about Is it still daytime?:

"The performance takes place around midnight in the shut-down premises of a shop in the red-light district in Oslo. Street noises and people looking through the windows become part of the performance. Two men and one woman, young actors, present fragments of texts by Samuel Beckett. The room and the costumes are brown, a dry, empty landscape. The materials are from a paper factory, brown cardboard, made of imported Russian birch. An image of arrested growth, suspended time, felled trees. Some of the texts are facts from the life of Descartes. The actors are man a and b and woman c, without age, address, history.

The woman listens to her own voice on a tape recorder. The men roll bales of cardboard around, while the dust flies, the fill their caps with brown chips.

The texts are taken from Rough for Theatre I and II (Samuel Beckett)."

Excerpts from the text:

"When I set out I don't know, and when I get here I don't know, and while I am here I don't know, whether it is day or night."

"something there
where
out there
out where
outside
what
the head what else
something there somewhere outside the head

at the faint sound so brief
it is gone and the whole globe
not yet bare
the eye
opens wide
wide
till in the end
nothing more
shutters it again

so the odd time
out there
somewhere out there
like as if
as if
something
not life
necessarily"

 Is it still daytime? was performed in the street of Tollbugaten in Oslo.

Source:

Catalogue, PASSAGE NORD 1986-1996. Kjetil Skøien, performance, installation. Donated by: Kjetil Skøien, May 2010. Translation: Ruth Waaler.

Lillian Bikset has corrected the English-language Beckett quotes for Sceneweb.