States, “The World on Stage”

-semitotically everything that composes the stage is a sign of something

-phenomenologically speaking, there is more to say: “there is a sense in which signs, or certain kinds of signs in a certain stage of their life cycle, achieve their vitality-and in turn the vitality of theater-not simply by signifying the world but by being of it.” (20)

-phenomenologically looking at art means removing objects from the world and then seeing that object in a new way “Here art is perceived as act of removing things from a world in which they have become inconspicuous and seeing them anew” (22)

-“Unlike the sign, the image is unique and unreproducible; whereas the sign is of no value unless it repeats itself” (25)

-uses the example of taking clocks offstage or hiding the face because it is some type of distracting for the audience

- in theater there is not difference between the image and the object because the object is on stage, present

-“theater ingests the world of objects and signs only to bring images to life” (37)