Theater excels at condensing thought into sudden unexpected action

Evidence

The theater is superb at surprise. It offers us thought condensed into action, just as the cinema does: it also takes an image and springs it open, so something powerful and unexpected jumps out. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 896

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 896
• XREF: connects to: A group imagining actions shifts from spectator to potential doer — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 326

Broader Connections

• A group imagining actions shifts from spectator to potential doer #expands (0.75) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 326