Theatre Econiches

This essay reports on cumulative observations and participation in material theatres and the human behaviours that these locales afford. The central theoretical stance is primarily from the standpoint of James J. Gibson's theories of ecological perception and subsequent developments by researchers working from the same or similar points of view. The concept of presentation uses Sociologist Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1956). Both Gibson and Goffman had been actors, and Goffman as an assistant athletic director. Nearly every sentence could have a citation from a relevant scientific study; but this is a report emerging from participatory observation rather than from those studies. A major basis is attending a dozen London performances each year from 2002 to 2024, excepting 2021. Likewise, reference to theatre studies is limited. Although recent decades of these studies show increasing attention to ecological themes, Cartesian separation of people and the locale continues. An exception is a 2021 doctoral dissertation that cites Gibson and a somewhat ecological position. Also informative and exceptional is Marvin Carlson's Theories of the Theatre (1993) and multiple conversations with Carlson. The author hopes to stimulate tightly focused research that will further our understanding of our human selves as in seamless continuity with our econiches embedded in the local, global, and universal

Aesthetics · Affordance · Art · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Media studies · Performative utterance · Presentation (obstetrics · Sentence · Sociology · Action Observation and Synchronization · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies

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