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The Necessity of Theater : The Art of Watching and Being Watched Katie Daynes a brilliant tableau of lifeWhat is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary and as powerful as language itself. Defining theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that at its most powerful can change lives and (as some peoples