ABSTRACT
THE HISTORICAL THEATER WAS essentially a disseminator of information or propa-ganda, or it was an articulated concentration of action (Aktionskonzentration) derived from events and doctrines in their broadest meaning – that is to say, as ‘dramatized’ legend, as religious (cultist) or political (proselytizing) propaganda, or as compressed action with a more or less transparent purpose behind it. The theater di»ered from the eyewitness report, simple storytelling, didactic moralizing, or advertising copy through its own particular synthesis of the elements of presentation: sound, color (light), motion, space, form (objects and persons). With these elements, in their accentuated but often uncontrolled interrelationships, the theater attempted to transmit an articulated experience.
