![]() ![]() Sometimes they are hundreds of miles apart, the Holy in Warsaw and the Rough in Prague, and sometimes they are metaphoric: two of them mixing together within one evening, within one act. Sometimes these four theatres really exist, standing side by side, in the West End of London, or in New York off Times Square. I will try to split the word four ways and distinguish four different meanings-and so will talk about a Deadly Theatre, a Holy Theatre, a Rough Theatre and an Immediate Theatre. We talk of the cinema killing the theatre, and in that phrase we refer to the theatre as it was when the cinema was born, a theatre of box office, foyer, tip-up seats, footlights, scene changes, intervals, music, as though the theatre was by very definition these and little more. Red curtains, spotlights, blank verse, laughter, darkness, these are all confusedly superimposed in a messy image covered by one all-purpose word. Yet when we talk about theatre this is not quite what we mean. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged. I CAN take any empty space and call it a bare stage. ![]()
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