''Theatre as a Memory Machine'': Magrita Prinslo (1896) and Donkerland (1996)

Abstract

Theatre, as a simulacrum of the cultural and historical process itself, seeking to depict the full range of human actions within their physical context, has always provided society with the most tangible records of its attempts to understand its own operations. It is the repository of cultural memory, but, like the memory of each individual, it is also subject to continual adjust­ment and 1nodification as the memory is recalled in new circumstances and contexts.

(Carlson 2004: 2)