ABSTRACT
Allucquere Rosanne Stone combines film, linguistics, gender, cultural studies, and feminist theory. She has pioneered "theoryperformance" on cyberspace and the transhuman through a number of seminal publications. The difference between natural lighting and the new phantasmatic space opened by controlled artificial lighting represented a watershed. In one way it signalled the ascendancy of technology as a transformative tool in theatre. Over time, with new sources of power and deeper understanding of the uses of light and sound, it became easier to create more effective theatrical productions. Creating liminal moments being the goal of a good deal of ritual activity, starting off by removing ourselves far from the everyday moil seems obvious. In an imperfect time in which our job as practitioners of theatre as a therapeutic discipline is to use change to create change, perhaps the best we can do is to engage noise as the pathognomon to silence.
