In my conception of space for the staging of this particular scene in Top Girls I adopt the view of David Osipovich that “a theatrical performance is a particular kind of interaction between performers and observers (actors and audience members) in a shared physical space”. Thus, my desire is to transcend the ontological primacy of the script written by Churchill in order to stage the musical as what I will term a “flashmob theatre”. My intention in the construction of this space is to digress from the theatrical performance as interpretation, referred to by Osipovich as “the literary theory of theatrical performance”, and towards theatre that is not only “in-your-face” but also “in-your-space”—an “in-your-face-and-space” theatre.
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