ABSTRACT
Well suited to our world, it is part of the great, millennia-long tradition of theatre that serves as mirror, consciousness, alarm and project of the community to which it relates. The theatre is the space and the event inhabited by flesh-and-blood people, who represent and experience the adventure of language live, in a protected enclosure and by interacting with an audience physically present and sharing the same space and time. In the light of the characteristics, schematically listed, a fundamental contribution to the establishment of the performative theatre comes from the reflection and theatrical practice of the great masters of the twentieth century. The construction of the stage representation often follows the procedures of workshop theatre, a collective construct, or the construction of the sign modelled on the concrete reality of the performer. The cornerstones that prefigured performative theatre were the rejection of theatre as spectacle.
