ABSTRACT
This paper presents a response to the subject and connotations of the conference title and statement concerning ‘visionary’ theatres. The theatres of abstract theories or manifestos, in both analogue and digital modes, are explored, as well as developments in inter-active and intelligent staging. It is suggested the ‘new’ is in the shaping technological and cultural means (techne), not the mimetic and other performative content. It is argued that the presence of the spectator as ‘spect-actor’ at or in all modes of presentation will always (dis)qualify any seemingly ‘impossible’ theatre or space.
