ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of the book. This book explains about art and theater. It is natural to adopt other people's stories to help create our identities and to fill in gaps in our own experience or intelligence. This can be helpful up to a point but it is easy to get stuck in other people's narrative structures. Stories become easily cemented and rendered inflexible, developing into assumptions upon which a life is lived. Without vigilance, stories simply become documented history and form, and their origins are forgotten. Rather than mechanically allowing other people's stories to guide our lives, it is possible to get involved and narrate from a state of passionate participation. The most vital aspect of being alive and responsible in this new climate of 'liquid modernity' is to recognize the power and significance of individual action.
