Foreman theorized theater as landscape of impenetrable objects generating awe

Evidence

In a sense, Foreman was providing a means to appreciate his own theater, which since Angelface had been further developed with his new work Ida-Eyed. Wilson, he maintained, was following Heidegger and Gertrude Stein in demonstrating that “profundity and holiness reenter the theatre through the proper articulation of the landscape aspect of the drama, filling the stage-space with real (i.e., impenetrable) objects and that very impenetrability is what satisfies as it produces awe and delight.” Freud was not an object lesson but an object. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1518

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Foreman’s theatrical principle: stage-space filled with impenetrable objects whose impenetrability produces awe.