This we know for sure: that tragedy was invented and that we have carried something resembling theater alongside ourselves for the past 2,500 years. We seem to have chosen to grieve not but rather find perpetual strength in certain practices of theatrical technology that have served many generations.

But while we have lugged mimesis, representation, narrative, and the proscenium arch into the present we have more recently forgotten to pass down any set of instructions as to how to care for that which precedes our grief. We have come to neglect the originary theatrical technology, Love. [+]