What is the Aim of Theatre?
On the Contemporary Idea of Theatre
What can theatre achieve today, when everyone has become the leading actor in their own lives?
Is it still permitted to speak for others? Does reality need a dramatic form? What value do the dramatic arts have? Who may appear on stage? What other spaces are needed? Does criticism still exist?
In a number of forums, artists, critics, policy makers and institutional representatives discuss what exactly is at stake at present in the theatre debate.