Lyn Gardner: What's it all about? In theatre, it's sometimes best if you don't know
As Tanztheater Wuppertal's 1980 proves, theatre is at its most potent when it doesn't offer answersSomebody once asked the dancer Anna Pavlova what she meant when she was dancing. "If I could tell you that," she replied, "I wouldn't dance it." Theatre's most thrilling evenings often come cloaked in ambiguity. Too much certainty is embalming in the theatre. It leaves nobody " writer, choreographer, performers, audienc…