Theater as Information

An article that I have been studying has discussed research in information behavior (or information practice) and its role in studying Shakespeare for researchers, actors, directors, and anyone else who professionally studies the Bard.  Not only has this gotten me on board, but has also got be thinking about plays in general, as it relates to information in a very contextualized and cultural way. The whole production is really just a vehicle -- a container and its contents, the passions of the particular actors, director vision, set pathos.  But its contents are also of a fluid variety. They are not the same for everyone who 'receives' the performance.  Each of the audience members has their own horizon -- they are each 'experts of their own worlds' which the performance is an outsider. It is a rather complex and social process of Socratic midwifery between work (artist vision), script, director, production, set, theatre, actor, audience -- and it can continue long after the performance is over in dialogue about the performance.