ABSTRACT
In this article I want to show how a metaphorically based methodology can be useful to giving a new perspective on theatre history, by situating the image or visual dimension in a synchronic perspective. This will oppose the traditional way of giving the text supremacy above the images; the classical linear way of seeing theatre as a representational expression in the Aristotelian tradition. In a synchronic and circular way of looking at theatre history, there is a breaking away from reason and the political as carrier of ideologies. Fluxus and other modernist and new avantgarde movements in the arts paved the way for also looking at theatre history as a compartmentalised, non-hierarchical phenomenon.
