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    It is not the case that Nothing is a theatrical event unless someone is actually watching

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    • 1.A theatrical event can be defined by its constitutive structure—scripted action, embodied performance, spatial staging—independent of actual spectatorship.
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    • 2.Richard Schechner's environmental theater theory holds that performance exists as a relational field between performers, space, and script, not contingent on audience presence.
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    • 3.If an actor performs Hamlet alone in a theater as a dress rehearsal, the theatrical event has occurred even if no audience witnesses it.
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    • 1.Kendall Walton's make-believe theory grounds theatrical ontology in the performer's intentional act of fictional representation, not in its reception by observers.
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    • 2.A performance constituted by intentional fictional enactment retains its theatrical status whether or not any observer is present to complete the communicative act.
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    • 1.Theatrical performances are events in which someone makes something worth watching
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    • 2.A performance without an actual watcher may be a performance but not a theatrical event
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