Schechner defines for us “Environmental Theater,” a more comprehensive and expansive conception of theater which we will find quite helpful in application to Jewish worship:
The first…principle of environmental theater is to create and use whole spaces – literally spheres of spaces, and spaces within spaces – which contain, or envelop, or relate, or touch all the areas where the audience is and/or the performers perform. All the spaces in a theater are actively involved in all the aspects of the performance
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