Said Karin Torneklint, Swedish team leader at World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018, to the effect that, if you want results in advance go to the theater instead.

 

Sports arena and theater subdivisions of tribunal: only evidence exposed during 'trial' must decide outcome, as finally read by referee and judge. Difference, of sports and theater: encapsulation of athletic event. Nothing, apart from what transpires in arena relevant to case, whereas at theater drama already happened and elsewhere, whose reconstruction court summoned to investigate and pass judgement on, but then by procedure such that every step taken nowhere else but in the very room of theater.

 

Oedipus, prosecutor and judge happens to arrive at establishing own guilt through conclusive evidence thereof. No plead guilty of confession in room of court because unaware and ignorant until final phase facing undeniable facts of his felony.

 

Tragedy, we already know the outcome, still must not look away from re-enactment in court of theater since playwright Sofokles wrote a ‘wellwritten verdict’ (legal parlance) make it piece of language worthy of re-consideration again and again by theatergoers and aren't we all.

 

Author, midwife at delivery of: new literary form, new theater, new science, new music, new art…

Montaigne, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Cervantes, break loose from tradition of literacy-of-letters that cannot resist bend back to their own beginnings in script of Scripts.

And Shakespeare, knew voice of speech won’t let itself be dominated by letter of script.

And Galilei, replace teleology-of-science by stand-alone operation through principle of evidence, by means of experimentation.

And music, on brink of new era soon enough establish common practice of differentiating well-tempered tonality of major and minor, lasting for the next 300 years or so.

And Caravaggio/Artemisia Gentileschi, sucked up and absorbed by irresistible pull of strong picture vacuum unknown to their predecessors, who, in comparison, programmatically restricted themselves to marking with line and color some compliant support for eyes-of-eyesight to read like some print, affording primarily optical presence of a plotter in front of a ’window’ screen (as of a linear perspective or some variation thereof). No draft nor pull to sweep away or gobble up author and beholder disappear get lost or get home in the process.