ABSTRACT
But what might aesthetic performance bear witness to? Class, experience, godhead, secular power, History, complexity, process, suffering, injustice, coincidence, human vitality, intellect, Truth, racism, the concealment of Truth, community, the communitas of the performance event, a life, the kinaesthetic, form, liminality, the primary processes of human figuring, the presence of the King, the problem with presence, embarrassment, wit, historical materialism, a structure of feeling, the Party, Sensibility, a sense of fun, tradition, an invented tradition, synaesthesia, the slipperiness of signification, the redundancy of Theatre, the feminist struggle, virtuosity, martyrdom, the everyday, the struggle between stage and auditorium, alienation, this or that ideology, difference, the gut, the phenomenological, the stage's capacity to stage the phenomenological, the abject, paying attention …
