ABSTRACT
In “On Acting and Not-Acting,” Michael Kirby states that “In most cases, acting and not-acting are relatively easy to recognize and identify” (Kirby 1995:43). In the dark, however, deprived of vision, how are we to do so? The etymological root of the word “theatre” is the Greek theatron, or “place of seeing.” The 1998–2000 production of War Music by Sound and Fury Theatre Company, performed entirely in darkness with an utter lack of any visual reference in its proceedings, undermined one of the central means by which “theatre” is most often defined.
