This issue examines the fundamental element of theatre that is perhaps most consistently overlooked. Theatre can succeed without lights, props, and even, in Samuel Beckett's 1969 play, Breath, an actor, but it cannot exist without space: there must be a location, a venue of some sort in which theatre can occur or, rather, take "place."
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