ABSTRACT

In this chapter, I concern myself with the connections of `social' and `theatre'. I investigate new ways of looking at the `social' and explore possible consequences regarding the relationships of thinking `socially' and acting `dramatically' or `theatrically'. Rather than trying to discuss existing de®nitions or to offer new ones, I present what seems to me a new mode of thinking the `social' and connecting it to theatre practices. In that sense, the chapter has rather a theoretical orientation. I think that this is useful insofar as practice reports and accounts about empirical case studies abound, whereas theoretical attempts to grasp relationships and connections between theatre practices and the `social' are rather few.