On contemporary stages, absence is a constant presence. This is very odd if you consider how corporeal and concrete theatre is. Unlike film, which is just light shining on a screen, or books, which are just letters on the page, theatre is live performance that is irreducibly there in the same space as you are, breathing the same air. Yet many playwrights " led of course by Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill and Martin C…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:27PM on August 4, 2015