TY - JOUR AU - Hannah, Dorita PY - 2003/05/29 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - ( I M ) M A T E R ( I A L I T Y ) and the Black-Box Theatre as an ‘Empty Space’ of Re-production JF - idea journal JA - idea journal VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - DO - 10.37113/ideaj.vi0.229 UR - https://journal.idea-edu.com/index.php/home/article/view/229 SP - 23-33 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 32"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>This paper examines a paradigmatic interior from the 20th century, the ‘black-box theatre’, associated with a fundamental rejection of the potential role played by the built-form within the art-form. Material space is denied in order to establish an apparent void-space. This perceived emptiness is reflected in a paucity of architectural and theatrical discourse surrounding the model. However an investigation of its physical and discursive absences suggests its apparent ‘lack’ veils a surplus of meaning. Such gaps and their associations with theatrical production reveal complicated links to the space of human reproduction and its attendant excesses which, in turn, leads to a distinctive link between the black-box and Plato’s notion of ‘chora’. This uncovering of material through the im-material, proposes a more embodied and performative approach to theatre space and to readings of the interior.</p></div></div></div> ER -