There are three different aspects of theater to be taken into consideration: (i) the place for theatrical performance; (ii) the theatre architecture, where the theatrical play is performed; and (iii) the venue for the theatrical performance, regardless of whether it is originally meant for theatre. Aspect (i) requires a theoretical analysis of the place of theater, which naturally exists whenever the actor and the audience face each other. Aspect (ii) leads to the historical perspective to observe the development of the relationship between the dramaturgical structure of the play and the formal structure of the playhouse. Aspect (iii) manifests the present-day situation of the theatrical event at various venues.
At the core of my theory of theater stands the triangular relationship between audience, actor, and the dramatic character. The place of theater stands at the relational line between the audience and the actor and consists of two aspects of “field” and “space.” “Field” is the conceptual characteristic, which means that we see the things on the stage as they are, and “space” means that we see the things on the stage as something else.
As for the time aspect of the performance on the stage, I propose a similar conceptual pair of “hour” and “time.” “Hour” represents what is happening on the stage, which can be measured by the watch, and “time” represents the whole duration of the plot of the play. The changing relationship between these two conceptual pairs makes up the history of the theater architecture and the play to be performed there.
The public evaluation of the theatrical venue depends on the valuableness of the performance there. The heavily subsidized public theater is not necessarily highly evaluated. In this regard, we need to examine the particular state of the audience as a group, “za.”
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