-Theater consists of many things that are what they seem. i.e. a chair is a chair pretending to be another chair
-what they are in the real world does not matter to a semiotician (semiology is a branch of pathology concerned with symptoms)
-art exists so that one may recover the sensation of life
-if art is a way of endowing the world with meaning, it is also a way of allowing the world to express itself
-it's the disease that interests a phenomenologist, not the germ that causes it or the stages of its progress
-macbeth could be reduced to a sign of a dagger with a red line through it but would then be somewhat inefficient of a story
-almost anything under the right sociological conditions can be "seen through" and pass into convention. I.e. real blood and violence in roman gladiator fights
-people dont like working clocks on stage because they take away the idea that theater isnt real
-vision is not a certain mode of thought or presence to self; it is the means given to me for being absent from myself, for being present at the fission of being from the inside-the fission at whose termination, and not before, i come back to myself
(this was said about painting, but is also a good description of the suspension of disbelief in theater)
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