ABSTRACT
Ours is a world of change; from one moment to the next. In the time-based arts of theatre, music, and dance, we become dis-engaged when we sense no change. In terms of change, theatre teaches us it is an incessant process, the world is in the midst of continual transformation. Some of these changes are visible; others, imperceptible. Our consciousness of change, the most extraordinary of phenomenon, the very essence of creation, is dulled and often deadened by its all pervasiveness. The Greek tragedians were interested in both screams and changes; the latter category they would come to call a peripeteia. Everything has changed, all in a moment, in the blink of an eye. The key for theatre practitioners is to play these fundamental changes, since it is through change that we understand things in general.
