List of Illustrations Acknowledgements A Note on the Text 1. Beginnings: Being There Touching Hands with Being What Is Phenomenology? Performance and Phenomenology Philosophers on Stage Mapping the Self 2. Phenomenology: Being-in-the-World Some Background Terms Space and Bodies The History of Being Destruktion and the Text From Theory to Practice Observe a Walk Observe Stillness Scrutinize an Object Chart a Place Well Known to You Unpack a Place Where You Feel At Home Dissect a Familiar Activity Describe a Person Recount a Time When You Struggled to Communicate Demonstrate a Moment When You Had an Unusual Experience of Time Stage a Life Choice Recreate the Instant in Which Your Life Was Threatened Text-Character-Performance 3. Being-with Others: The Cherry Orchard Equipment Involvement Touch Being Elsewhere Other People Authenticity and Freedom: Antigone Falling Nothingness Moods and Faring Thrownness and Projection Fate and Destiny 5. Time and Resoluteness: Hamlet Timeliness Having a History Being-a-Whole Resoluteness Being-towards-Death 6. Possibilities: Aletheia On the Essence of Truth in Theatre Poetry, Language, Theatre Building, Dwelling, Theatre The Question concerning Theatre Technology Ereignis References Index.