ABSTRACT

Peter M. Boenisch denes the intermediality of theatre (pace Higgins) as a mode of spectatorship. For Boenisch, the idea that things on stage exist simultaneously on two dierent levels (a table on stage, for example, is both a table and a representation of a table in a particular dramatic context) opens up the possibility that the spectator can perceive the theatrical production as operating in the interstices between the two levels rather than as a seamless fusion of them (Boenisch 2006). e intermediality of theatre, in this view, is not on the stage but in the minds of the audience-it is a mode of perception that dismantles theatrical illusion to reveal the workings of mediation within theatrical representation.