ABSTRACT
The title is a precis compressing numerous themes related to concepts of physical, geographical, architectural, social and psychological space which will be examined in connection with the vocation of the actress. Fieldwork and historical research are used to show how the actress has transformed the theatre, stage and drama to convey her perception of the world from a female point of view. The social anthropologist’s concern with the worlds of other peoples once seemed to suggest that it might be possible to make an atlas in which every social system and philosophy could be marked in and the boundaries more or less indicated. The picture of each small area being researched and jigsawed into the social map of the whole world now seems untenable. The association of women with the private domestic area of the home, rather than the social arena of public life, marked a division between the way men and women were seen as individual persons.
