Alain Robbe-Grillet on the thereness of theater.

The human condition, Heidegger says, is to be there. Probably it is the theater, more than any other mode of representing reality, which reproduces this situation most naturally. The dramatic character is on stage, that is his primary quality: he is there.

From "Samuel Beckett, or Presence on the Stage".   ¶ 5:16 PM