Discusses the possibilities of real theatrical performances: a project which is an unavoidable challenge for a semiotics of theatre. The author develops a systematic definition of performance in terms of text, a new theoretical object, which he sees as the result of treating theatrical performance as a material object.
" -Choice"The Semiotics of Performance surprisingly retains its revelatory freshness, and actually opens up areas of reseach that could very well supply new incentives for further probing into what semiotics can offer to the study of theatre." -Theatre Survey
