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i think it's pretty dangerous to judge any situation (or reality) entirely in its own terms-there's a need for some greater context, some exterior grounding point from which we can gain perspective. the question, then, is one of getting outside the given, negating it, re- jecting entirely its dictates. the theater is a perfect means of gaining this perspective. the task of the theater is to create a world, not necessarily a copy of the one outside the theater, but a total reality which, through its difference, comments on the ordinary one. the possibilities are many and varied-comedy, absurdtsm. tragedy, theater of cruelty-but they are held to- gether by the common function of altering or doing away with what we safely and narrowly call reality and confronting us with our naked selves. jeff karr