[“Theatre’s functions of surveillance…” – Alain Badiou]
The audience is scanned to see who is laughing when, when a lip wrinkles, when a fleeting look of disgust or annoyance or boredom crosses a face. These observations are fed into the next evening’s production, and the next.
Eventually, perfection is reached and only a vapid pleasure survives.
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THE SUNDAY PITCH
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