



2 h eatricality is ai liated with non-linguistic elements of performance such as lighting, sound, and props yet the sui x-ality also implies a rel exive fold and self-distilling movement that sublimates stage crat into consciousness and towards language. For this reason, Bert States identii ed theatre as 'a place of disclosure, not a place of reference', 1 a n d Samuel Weber insists that theatricality 'does not merely " reproduce " and yet also does not simply " create " '. ' h eatricality' usually designates a phenomenon distinct from drama and its humanist spaces and institutions, while also capturing an essential feature of dramatic art, namely its appearing, its phenomenal passage into a special kind of space that is brought into being by the fact and act of that transit.
