Bolter and Grusin

a medium is that which remediates...it is that which appropriates the techniques, forms and social significance of other media and attempts to rival of refashion them in the name of the real....

Marshall McLuhan

[Mediation] translates and transforms the sender receiver and message. The use of any kind of medium or extension of man alters the patterns of interdependence among people, as it alters the ratios among our senses...

Walter Benjamin

During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity's entire mode of existence. The manner is which human sense perception is organised, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well

Communication > Theatre

key developments in the history of performance and theatre throughout the world are related to key developments in modes of human communication

Zarrilli et al

Theatre as home within media space

...it is never possible to stand back and view the whole structure because we are all in it and operative within it...we operate in the sensual spaces between media...theatre is a hypermedium for all the separate elements awaiting the activating and organising mind and body of the perceiver...

theatre has become a hypermedium and a home to all. It provides space where the art forms of theatre, dance and opera meet interact and integrate with the media of cinema, television and the new technologies; creating profusions of texts, intertexts, inter-media and spaces in-between....

intermediality [is a] meeting point in-between the performers, the observers, and the confluence of media involved in a performance at a particular moment in time, with theatre providing the staging space

Chapple and Kattenblatt

Cheer(s)!

give a cheer that the live voice can still provoke emotion - even one of fear

Chapple and Kattenblatt

Theatre - a picnic?

You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kinds of musicals over and over again - all spectacles. You get your tickets for the Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what theatre is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theatre at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture...I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was. You can't bring it back. It's gone. It's a tourist attraction.

Stephen Sondheim