Environmental theater erased the performer-audience boundary through shared staging.

Evidence

As order was dismembered in The Bacchae, Schechner’s “environmental” staging broke numerous barriers. There were no seats. Performers and audience shared the space. Spectators perched on or lounged beneath the wooden battlements might at any moment be inveigled, even physically, by Dionysus’s followers to participate in the performance. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1194

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s shelf claim that avant-gardes are produced by conditions — the Performance Group’s spatial reconfiguration is a concrete enabling condition for their radical experiments.